1889 1st ed Sylvie & Bruno Lewis Carroll Illustrated Fantasy Humor Harry Furniss

1889 1^st ed Sylvie & Bruno Lewis Carroll Illustrated Fantasy Humor Harry Furniss

 

“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.”

― Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno

 

A rare first edition of the first volume of Lewis Carroll’s final novel published in his lifetime – “Sylvie and Bruno”. This work showed the evolution of Carroll as a writer, in that, he ventured into multiple plots within the same story. This book is set in a fairy tale timeline as well as a real-world setting and is beautifully illustrated by Harry Furniss. The story of “Sylvie and Bruno” was complete in 1893 with the conclusion entitled “Sylvie and Bruno Concluded”.

 

Item number: #954

Price: $499

 

CARROLL, Lewis

 

Sylvie and Bruno

 

London ; New York : Macmillan, 1889. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation complete with all pages: [xxiii], 400, [6]
  • 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
• Language: English
• Size: ~7in X 5in (17.5cm x 12.5cm)

 

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