Eldridge Johnson's Facsimile Edition of Alice's Adventures Under Ground

In 1936, Eldridge Johnson, who owned the original manuscript of Alice, written and drawn by Dodgson for Alice, commissioned Max Jaffe of Vienna to print a number of copies in collotype of a facsimile edition. The number is not known for certain but most people state 75 unnumbered copies in green morocco with a slipcase. Several other facsimile editions have been published but this one is the finest and nearest to the original, now housed in the British Library. The oval photograph of Alice Liddell that had been hidden for many years until it’s’ discovery by Morten Cohen, is shown on the last page, with the loose final leaf that came with the Johnson facsimile. Copies of this book today usually sell for £1000 plus, though I was lucky enough to get this copy for a fraction of that in 2000 on the internet.