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Why was the first edition of Aliceās Adventures in Wonderland withdrawn?
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Lewis Carroll
British novelist Lewis Carroll, 1863.
The first edition of Aliceās Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865, was withdrawn by Lewis Carroll due to poor printing quality.1
Because of this withdrawal, only about 21 copies of the original edition are known to survive today, making it one of the rarest books of the 19th century. A reprint of the work was subsequently prepared and ready for publication by Christmas of that same year.1