Lewis Carroll’s copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland now digitally viewable
Lewis Carroll’s own copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, that was recently donated to Christ Church, has now been digitised by the Bodleian Library.
It concerns Lewis Carroll’s personal copy of the 1865 suppressed first edition, which is not only very rare because it is one of the few surviving original editions – it also contains ten of Tenniel’s original pencil sketches, which are bound into the volume. The book also includes Carroll’s handwritten notes for what would later become the ‘Nursery Alice’ edition.
This so called ‘Michelson Alice’ (named after the woman who donated it) can now be viewed onlin on the Bodleian Library website: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/a315d687-3639-4494-9f24-df52bafdc829/surfaces/bf248500-4857-43f2-bb86-6468b5f15e06/