Sylvie and Bruno.

Carroll (Lewis)

Sylvie and Bruno.

With Forty-Six Illustrations by Harry Furniss.

Description: FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved frontispiece (tissue-guard present) and further illustrations, some full-page, light spotting to prelims, recurrent to final page of Index, pp. xxiii, 400, [3, ads], crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, this gently faded with trivial wear at tips, beneath the title-lettering is the (upside-down) faintly visible ownership inscription of 'F. Munro[?]', slight lean to spine, boards with gilt triple fillet border and central pictorial roundel, corners of upper board slightly knocked, some light handling to cloth, a.e.g., black endpapers, very good

Publication Details: Macmillan, 1889

Notes: Inscribed by the publisher on the half-title: 'Fanny Hughes, from the Publisher. Jan 7, 1890'. We have not confidently been able to trace the recipient - the wife of another Macmillan author, Thomas Hughes, bore this name.Though Carroll's late novel is not ranked highly within his oeuvre, its Index alone is a work of genius.

Bibliography: (Williams, Madan, Green 217 & 250)

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