Alice's Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll

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Alice's Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll, published by Macmillan and Co,London 1886. Publisher's original scarlet cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, all edges gilt. First edition, first impression with black coated endpapers. This is an important issue point and differentiates the first edition from the later issues that were produced with white endpapers that were available from the publisher's as late as 1920.This is the first publication in facsimilie of Carroll's original version of Alice that would become 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. Although carroll's own illustrations are rather naive in execution, their innovative placement and his typographic originality are still impressive. An usually fine copy.