Oct 27, 2022 - Sale 2619

Sale 2619 - Lot 150

Price Realized: $ 1,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Carroll, Lewis. Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. 8vo, original gilt stamped red cloth, all edges gilt, spine lightly faded with slight lean; light spotting to half title, frontispiece and title, front hinge tender, 1-page advertisement leaf tipped to half title verso; cloth chemise and 1/4 morocco slipcase. First edition, presenation copy, inscribed to half title: "Mrs Richards, with the Author's sincere regards, Dec. 28, 1893." On 13 December 1881 Carroll wrote to Mrs. F.W. Richards concerning 'Child Friends', Ethel Barclay and Marion Richards and a proposed trip to the pantomime at Brighton. Letters are recorded to Marion Richards on 26 October 1881 and 8 February 1886. On 6 August 1881 Carroll had become reacquainted with Marion Richards and four others including Edith and May Miller. (Letters, p. 1034). London: Macmillan Co., 1893