![]() ![]() The dedicatory verses hide the names of the dedicatee (Isa Bowman and Enid Stevens respectively), the former one doubly. The books were not a success in fact new copies of the second volume were still being sold as late as 1939. are rightly described by Dodgson (Preface, p. There is hardly any plot: Sylvie and Bruno, after living with a Warden, Sub-Warden, Professor, Beggar, Gardener, Uggug (the young artist) and others, are conducted by the Gardener into Elfland, ride on a lion, visit Dogland, and so on. Somehow the light and airy touch of ALICE is wanting, but there is plenty of amusing incident and entertaining verse. the principles on which he introduces many solemn pages into his fairy tale, the serious subjects of life and science cannot be thus inserted without marring the effect of the whole. SYLVIE AND BRUNO, with its conclusion in 1893, was the last considerable work by Dodgson. First Editions of Carroll's rather serious fairy tales. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. With Forty-six Illustrations by Harry Furniss. ![]()
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