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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). Alice's Adventures Under Ground . [Camden, New Jersey: printed for Eldridge R. Johnson by Max Jaffe, Vienna, 1936]. 8° (186 x 118 mm). 37 illustrations by the author, 14 of these full-page, photographic portrait of Alice mounted on final leaf; loosely inserted leaf providing alternative ending of the text. Original limp green morocco gilt, original green slipcase (foot of spine chipped, joints rubbed, slipcase lightly rubbed).
DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll'). Alice's Adventures Under Ground . [Camden, New Jersey: printed for Eldridge R. Johnson by Max Jaffe, Vienna, 1936]. 8° (186 x 118 mm). 37 illustrations by the author, 14 of these full-page, photographic portrait of Alice mounted on final leaf; loosely inserted leaf providing alternative ending of the text. Original limp green morocco gilt, original green slipcase (foot of spine chipped, joints rubbed, slipcase lightly rubbed). A PERFECT PRINTED FACSIMILE OF CARROLL'S FAMOUS MANUSCRIPT. In 1936 the American collector Eldridge R. Johnson arranged for this collotype facsimile of the original manuscript (which he purchased at auction in 1928 through Rosenbach) to be printed privately in a very limited run for presentation to friends. 'It is not too extravagant to say that this production is as near perfection as is possible for a printed facsimile' (Selwyn Goodacre and Denis Crutch in Jabberwocky: The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society , Autumn 1978). Following Johnson's death in 1944, the manuscript was offered again at auction and was again purchased by Rosenbach, who arranged for it to be presented to the British Nation through contributions from American subscribers. See Diane Waggoner, The Advent of Alice (Philadelphia, 1999) no. 10, pp. 17-18.