Last year the British Library announced it was putting millions of incredible photos on Flickr that would have eventually been lost to time. Here we celebrate some of the most stunning items from another of its collections: “Turning the Pages” .
One of the most beautiful items in the collection is Lewis Carroll's original manuscript for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, from 1864.
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He wrote the book after entertaining the daughter of a friend on a boat trip with a story about Alice's magical adventures.
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She begged him to write it down for her, and several months later, he had.
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Also in the collection is this collection of notes, designs and treatises by Leonardo Da Vinci (1508).
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