ON THIS DAY

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July 4, 1865:

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland published

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published on this day.

However, illustrator John Tenniel was displeased with the printing of his illustrations - smudges, bleeding through on the pages and blotting on the illustrations. Lewis Carroll therefore decided to recall this first edition. Currently only 22 known copies remain, of which only 10 are in their original bindings, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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