![]() ![]() Using a different printer the 1866 version is the first published edition. Macmillan then printed around 2000 copies of the book in 1865, but both artist and author were unhappy with the poor quality printing and insisted it was reprinted before being published. ![]() ![]() In order to get the tale ready for publication it was enlarged and Punch illustrator, John Tenniel, was commissioned to do the drawings. Before giving the book to Alice, Dodgson showed the the tale to several friends, including fantasy writer George MacDonald, who encouraged him to have the book published. He did this and added a few of his own illustrations. Dodgson entertained the Liddell children with a tale of Wonderland, which Alice Liddell begged him to commit to paper. He remained in Oxford as a Mathematics professor and on 4th July, 1862 took the now famous river cruise with a group of friends, which included the three daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, is better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll.īorn in 1832, in Daresbury, Cheshire, Dodgson was educated at Rugby, before reading mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. ![]()
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