By 1884, 100,000 copies had been printed. The book was reprinted and re-released in 1866. A few of these printings made their way to the United States. This first printed edition was removed from the market. However, Tenniel and Dodgson disapproved of the quality of the printing. The edition of 4,000 copies was released, under the pseudonym “Lewis Carroll,” in time for Christmas in December of 1865, carrying 1866 as the publication date. The first edition included forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel, a cartoonist for the magazine, Punch. Macdonald’s six-year-old son is said to have declared that he “wished there were 60,000 copies of it.”ĭodgson prepared the manuscript for publication, expanding the original 18,000 word story to 35,000 words and adding, among other characters and scenes, the Cheshire Cat and “A Mad-Tea Party.” Macdonald, a popular writer of fairy tales and fantasy, read the story to his children, who thoroughly approved of it.
Dodgson consulted another friend, George MacDonald. Friend and novelist Henry Kingsley saw the manuscript and encouraged Dodgson to publish the book. Dodgson presented his manuscript to Alice as a Christmas gift in 1864. Alice asked Dodgson to write the story down. Dodgson made the story up to entertain the bored children during a series of outings. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s now-famous Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was intended solely for Alice Liddell and her two sisters.
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