Macmillan published a facsimile of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground in 1886.
The volume reproduced Lewis Carroll’s original handwritten manuscript, the early version of the story that he had written and illustrated for Alice Liddell. Its title page described it as a facsimile of the original manuscript book “afterwards developed into” Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
The 1886 edition preserved Carroll’s own drawings rather than John Tenniel’s illustrations from the famous 1865 publication. It included 37 illustrations by Carroll and gave readers a way to see the story in the form closest to its private beginnings.
The manuscript itself was created after Carroll narrated the tale to the Liddell sisters during the 1862 boating trip. It remained with Alice Liddell for decades before eventually entering major institutional collections. The facsimile is therefore not a second edition of the standard novel, but a reproduction of the shorter, earlier manuscript version.