Alice's Adventures Under Ground Being a Facsimile of the original MS. book afterwards developed into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Inscribed by the Author, First edition, First issue (black endpapers), 1886. In the original publishers red cloth, gilt triple ruled borders & titles, lower board with the gilt mock turtle within gilt circle, board corners rubbed. Skilfully respined from another copy, gilt titles. Internally, half title with authors inscription (Mildred Fowle, Dec 3/92), [5], (vi-viii), [2], [2], [4], 95 pp, [1] Xmas Greeting, [1], [2] adverts, 37 illustrations by the author (14 being full page), a.e.g., black endpapers, hinges strengthened, marginal toning and occasional surface soiling. Housed in a matching red silk cloth slipcase. (186*126 mm). (Lovett A.127. Green -LC Handbook 194, p132p. Williams 52, p62-5). There are 5 other known copies signed that day (Lindseth-World of Wonderlands). Under Ground is the direct ancestor of Wonderland, but they differ in important ways: Under Ground is about half the length of Wonderland. Several famous episodes are absent or abbreviated, including: The Cheshire Cat (absent) The Mad Tea Party (absent) The Mock Turtle and Gryphon (absent). The story is more linear and dreamlike, less episodic. And the prose is simpler & more intimate, reflecting its origin as a story told orally to a child.