In November 1865, the second edition of 2,000 copies was published, using a new printer (Richard Clay of Bungay) ( See reference 1A). The rejected copies were presented to children’s hospitals and institutions – 23 copies of the ‘1865 Alice’ are known to have survived. The book was withdrawn, and recipients of presentation copies asked to return them.
Only 50 copies had been bound when Dodgson heard from Tenniel that he was dissatisfied with the way the pictures came out. The book was published on commission by Macmillan & Co., in July 1865, in an edition of 2000 printed by the Oxford University Press, the copies to be bound in red cloth gilt. Meanwhile, the artist John Tenniel was approached and commissioned to illustrate the final expanded text of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In November 1864 he presented the manuscript volume of Alice’s Adventures under Ground, complete with his own illustrations, to Alice Liddell. The manuscript was seen by the novelist Henry Kingsley and the family of the writer of children’s books George MacDonald, who all urged him to consider publication.ĭodgson retained the manuscript version for reference as he expanded the book into the fuller text of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It is likely that he left spaces in the text to be filled with his own illustrations at a later date. He started a manuscript text on 13 November 1862, completing it on 10 February 1863. That evening and on a train journey the next day, he set out the main headings. On return to Christ Church, Alice urged Dodgson to write out the story for her. Robinson Duckworth of Trinity College, took a boat trip ‘up the river to Godstow’.ĭuring the trip, the first outlines of the story of Alice’s Adventures under Ground were narrated. On 4 July 1862 Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), accompanied by the three eldest daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, Lorina, Alice and Edith, and The Rev.
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