Lewis Carroll - Sylvie and Bruno & Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, Macmillan, 1889 & 1898
Lewis Carroll - Sylvie and Bruno & Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, Macmillan, 1889 & 1898
Illustrations by Harry Furniss. The work is split cleanly between two distinct dimensions. The Real World: Set in Victorian Britain, this half function as a realistic social and didactic novel. Characters engage in lengthy, sophisticated debates regarding religion, social reform, morality, philosophy, and clerical profanity. It contains a conventional Victorian romance between the characters Dr Arthur and Lady Muriel. Fairyland: A fantastical dreamscape filled with classic Carrollian literary nonsense, poems, and fairy-tale elements. Here, a political conspiracy unfolds against the Warden of Outland.
Two volume Victorian set. Pictorial green cloth in good condition. Faded spines and bumped ends. Corners bumped. Darkened copies. Foxing to endpapers. Tanning to page edges. Inscription on endpaper and a name in pencil. Pencil notation to poem beginning of book. Good reading copies.
Weight 1270g.