First edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland donated to Oxford University

The most important of only 23 known surviving copies of the first – and subsequently withdrawn – June 1865 edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been given jointly to Christ Church Oxford and the Bodleian Libraries.

The acquisition, valued well in excess of £1m, is a gift from a US private collector Ellen A Miche…

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