Sylvie and Bruno Concluded.

Carroll (Lewis, i.e. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded.

With Forty-Six Illustrations by Harry Furniss.

Description: FIRST EDITION, tissue-guarded frontispiece, this and title-page faintly spotted, the half-title likewise, pp.xxxi, 423, [5, ads], 8vo, original red cloth with gilt triple fillet border and illustrations stamped in gilt to both boards, backstrip lettered in gilt and faded, some light soiling to cloth with a couple of small waterspots and a very faint graze to upper board, tiny pinhole incursion to lower joint, a.e.g., black endpapers, with the Advertisement leaf issued with the book loosely inserted following the Preface, good

Publication Details: Macmillan, 1893

Notes: Inscribed at the head of the title-page, to 'Lady Eustace Cecil, with the Author's sincere regards. Dec. 28, 1893'. The recipient, née Gertrude Scott, was the wife of Lord Eustace Cecil, a Tory M.P. (like his father-in-law) - with whom Dodgson spent time at the family seat of Hatfield House, residence of Cecil's brother, the Marquess of Salisbury. Both Lady Eustace Cecil and her niece, Maud, have been suggested as models for the character of 'Lady Muriel' in this work.Carroll's 'Advertisement' (Williams 219), issued with this edition, is generally discarded. It reflects his admirable, nearly...moreInscribed at the head of the title-page, to 'Lady Eustace Cecil, with the Author's sincere regards. Dec. 28, 1893'. The recipient, née Gertrude Scott, was the wife of Lord Eustace Cecil, a Tory M.P. (like his father-in-law) - with whom Dodgson spent time at the family seat of Hatfield House, residence of Cecil's brother, the Marquess of Salisbury. Both Lady Eustace Cecil and her niece, Maud, have been suggested as models for the character of 'Lady Muriel' in this work.Carroll's 'Advertisement' (Williams 219), issued with this edition, is generally discarded. It reflects his admirable, nearly obsessive, concern with the production qualities of his books: 'I am deeply annoyed to find that the last issue of "Through the Looking-Glass,"... has been put on sale without its being noticed that most of the pictures have failed so much, in the printing, as to make the book not worth buying.' He asked that copies be returned to the publisher in return for copies of the next issue. Those returned he proposed giving to 'Mechanics' Institutes, Village Reading-Rooms, and similar institutions, where the means for purchasing such books are scanty'. Subsequent issues of Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, his final work of fiction, had white endpapers. HIDE

Bibliography: (Williams 216: Parrish Catalogue 51)

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Price: £2,650

Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1893

Stock Number: 74290

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