Alice's Adventures Under Ground
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Overview:
- Title: Alice's Adventures Under Ground
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Year: 1886
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
- Price: 4/-
- Pages: viii+[8]+95+[4]
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Chapter Book
- Title Reference: Alice's Adventures Under Ground
- Notes:
- First ed., published for the 1886 Christmas gift season
- "An Easter greeting to every child who loves 'Alice'", dated Easter, 1876, is on pages [93]-95. The poem, "Christmas greetings [from a fairy to a child]", dated Christmas, 1867, is on the verso of p. 95. Works by Lewis Carroll on p. [3]-[4] at end.
- "Being a facsimile of the original ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's adventures in Wonderland," by Lewis Carroll; with thirty-seven illustrations by the author." (The publisher advertisement, below, and some library records suggest full title Alice's Adventures Under Ground: Being a Facsimile of the Original Ms. Book Afterwards Developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".)
- Includes 37 pages of illustrations by the author.
- Data from Trevanion & Dean Auctioneers and from WorldCat (OCLC, below)
- Price from classified advertisement in The Observer 1886-12-19 p8 and -12-26 p8 "Christmas Gift Books" (newspaper page heading); under "New Books for Children" within two full columns of Macmillan listings, this one "Crown 8vo., 4s."