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Publication: Alice's Adventures Under Ground

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  • Publication: Alice's Adventures Under GroundPublication Record # 510514
  • Author: Lewis Carroll
  • Date: 1886-00-00
  • Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
  • Price:
    4/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
  • Pages: viii+[8]+95+[4]
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: CHAPBOOK
  • 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."
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Chapbook Title: Alice's Adventures Under Ground • juvenile • chapbook by Lewis Carroll

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