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CARROLL, LEWIS [=DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE] Sylvie and Bruno

Catalogue: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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CARROLL, LEWIS [=DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE] Sylvie and Bruno

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Lot 231
CARROLL, LEWIS [=DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE] Sylvie and Bruno
[WITH] Sylvia and Bruno Concluded. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1889 and 1893. First editions. 2 vols. Full gilt-tooled red morocco, with figures from the book inset in Kelliegram style, gilt-tooled turn-ins, all edges gilt, by Bayntun, in cloth slipcase. 7 x 4 3/4 inches (17.7 x 12 cm); xxiii, 400; xxxi, 423 pp.; frontispiece in each volume, in-text illustrations throughout, half-titles. Rebacked, extremities rubbed, offsetting from turn-ins to endpapers, booksellers tickets to rear pastedowns.
Attractively bound by Bayntun (signed), with the original cloth panels and spines bound in. Illustrations by Harry Furniss. WM&G consider Sylvie and Bruno to be "the last considerable work issued by Dodgson" (p. 164). Williams, Madan & Green 217 and 250.


C Property from the Estate of an Upper East Side Collector

Estimate: $300 - $500
Sold for $500 (includes buyer's premium)

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