DODGSON, Rev. CHARLES LUTWIDGE ("Lewis Carroll"). Sylvie and Bruno [and] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan 1889 & 1893. 2 vols., 8vo, original red cloth gilt, g.e., covers slightly soiled, extremities a bit rubbed, marginal tear in leaf [04] of the first volume crudely repaired, front inner hinge of the second volume cracking, maroon half morocco slipcase (bit scuffed). FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUE of the second volume, illustrations by Harry Furniss, PRESENTATION COPY of Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, inscribed by Dodgson in black ink on the half-title: "Angela Barnes, with the Author's love. Dec. 27, 1893." The recipient was one of three daughters of Reginald Barnes, who had been a fellow undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson was quite friendly with the family. Two of the daughters became actresses; the third, Angela, became a violinist. She visited the author while doing a concert in Oxford in February 1892; he in turn attended her first London concert, in June 1892, with seven guests, mostly members of his family. See Letters, ed. M.N. Cohen and R.L. Green, II, 681-2 & 904. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 217 & 250.Provenance: Lizzie Simpson, signature on half-title of the first volume -- Walter Chrysler, bookplate in the first volume. (2)

DODGSON, Rev. CHARLES LUTWIDGE ("Lewis Carroll"). Sylvie and Bruno [and] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan 1889 & 1893. 2 vols., 8vo, original red cloth gilt, g.e., covers slightly soiled, extremities a bit rubbed, marginal tear in leaf [04] of the first volume crudely repaired, front inner hinge of the second volume cracking, maroon half morocco slipcase (bit scuffed). FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUE of the second volume, illustrations by Harry Furniss, PRESENTATION COPY of Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, inscribed by Dodgson in black ink on the half-title: "Angela Barnes, with the Author's love. Dec. 27, 1893." The recipient was one of three daughters of Reginald Barnes, who had been a fellow undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson was quite friendly with the family. Two of the daughters became actresses; the third, Angela, became a violinist. She visited the author while doing a concert in Oxford in February 1892; he in turn attended her first London concert, in June 1892, with seven guests, mostly members of his family. See Letters, ed. M.N. Cohen and R.L. Green, II, 681-2 & 904. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 217 & 250. Provenance: Lizzie Simpson, signature on half-title of the first volume -- Walter Chrysler, bookplate in the first volume. (2)

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DODGSON, Rev. CHARLES LUTWIDGE ("Lewis Carroll"). Sylvie and Bruno [and] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. London: Macmillan 1889 & 1893. 2 vols., 8vo, original red cloth gilt, g.e., covers slightly soiled, extremities a bit rubbed, marginal tear in leaf [04] of the first volume crudely repaired, front inner hinge of the second volume cracking, maroon half morocco slipcase (bit scuffed). FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUE of the second volume, illustrations by Harry Furniss, PRESENTATION COPY of Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, inscribed by Dodgson in black ink on the half-title: "Angela Barnes, with the Author's love. Dec. 27, 1893." The recipient was one of three daughters of Reginald Barnes, who had been a fellow undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson was quite friendly with the family. Two of the daughters became actresses; the third, Angela, became a violinist. She visited the author while doing a concert in Oxford in February 1892; he in turn attended her first London concert, in June 1892, with seven guests, mostly members of his family. See Letters, ed. M.N. Cohen and R.L. Green, II, 681-2 & 904. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 217 & 250.

Provenance: Lizzie Simpson, signature on half-title of the first volume -- Walter Chrysler, bookplate in the first volume. (2)