Carroll, Lewis [ Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge ] & Furniss, Harry [illustrator]
Sylvie And Bruno [with] Sylvie And Bruno Concluded
Macmillan & Co, 1889 - 1893, 1st edition. Half red morocco, VG+. 2 volumes, xxiv+400pp+3pp, xxxii+423pp+5pp, b/w frontis to each volume & a grand total of 92 b/w illustrations, index to the whole in volume II, 8 pages of Carroll related publishers adverts, top edge gilt, spines evenly a little sunned, page margins a little tanned, but overall an attractive pair of volumes. Binding unsigned. First edition, first issue of 'Concluded' with contents giving chapter 8 as starting on page 110. Hardback , no dustjacket.
¶ Carroll's last work published in his lifetime, a dual novel with two central plots - one a social novel set in Victorian Britain & all that ails contemporary life for Victoria's subjects & the other a fairy tale, set in Fairyland, with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll's Alice books.
Eastleach Books
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GBP 185.00 [Appr.: EURO 216.5 US$ 231.91 | JP¥ 36089]
Keywords: nonsense, victorian literature