Bonhams 1793 : DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) "Lewis Carroll" Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Being a facsimile of the original ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED The Marchioness of Granby from the Author, June 28, 1889" on the half-title, 1886

Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Being a facsimile of the original ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to "The Marchioness of Granby from the Author, June 28, 1889" on the half-title, illustrations by the author, modern white pigskin gilt, g.e., half morocco gilt slipcase by "J. May, London", FINE COPY [Avery 29], 8vo, Macmillan, 1886

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A presentation copy inscribed to Lady Granby (1856-1937), an artist who "pushed the boundaries of acceptable bohemianism" and "was one of the central figures of the Souls, the group of aristocratic friends which formed around A. J. Balfour and the Tennant sisters in the last decades of the nineteenth century... [they] prided themselves on their intellectual interests, their avant-garde artistic taste, and their cultural sophistication" (ODNB).

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