Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519
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Sale 2519 - Lot 231

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(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) CARROLL, LEWIS [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]. Sylvie and Bruno * Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. Together, 2 volumes. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. 8vo, bound in full red morocco by Bayntun Riviere, covers with gilt-rule borders, spines ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments, all edges and turn-ins gilt; original bindings of full red cloth bound in. Fine copies. London and New York: Macmillan Co., 1889; 1893
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first editions. each volume inscribed to "mrs. morgan" by the author on the half-title, the first volume bearing Carroll's handwritten date of December 12. Apparently, this is the same copy of Sylvie and Bruno mentioned in The Lewis Carroll Handbook by Williams, Madan, and Green. Carroll was still correcting page proofs of the book in November of 1889, "but a presentation copy is known which was dispatched on 12 Dec. in that year," according to the authors. In the companion volume, Carroll dates the inscription to Morgan December 27, two days prior to the book's official release, indicating a second presentation copy (Williams, Madan & Green 217, 250).