Real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, he was born in Cheshire in 1832. Educated at Rugby and then Oxford, where he became the sub librarian in 1855. As well as a writer, he was also a pioneer photographer producing many excellent studies. In 1864, John Tenniel the well known book artist was commissioned to illustrate Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which went on to be published by Macmillan & Co. in an edition of two thousand, printed by Oxford University Press in July 1865. Only fifty copies had been produced and bound in red cloth, when Tenniel declared he was discontented with the printed drawings. So the book was withdrawn and recalled. Those copies of the book they received back were given to children’s hospitals rather than destroy them. Only twenty three of these copies are known to have survived and are now valued at over £200,000 per volume.
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