Also sold was the inscribed
dedication copy of Alice’s Adventures Underground (1886), bound in white vellum gilt for
presentation to the grown-up Alice, right, which at £140,000 was well under estimate.
Buyer’s premium: 20/15/10 per cent
Alice’s Adventures Begin
There will be much more to come on the £2m Lewis Carroll’s Alice at Sotheby’s on June 6, but this week just one of ten recorded prints of Dodgson’s 1858 portrait of Alice Liddell as ‘The Beggar Maid’, which sold for £160,000.
