Lewis Carroll — Sylvie and Bruno

London, Macmillan and Co, 1889 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Lewis Carroll's fantasy novel, set partly in fairyland. Beautifully illustrated by Harry Furniss. The first edition, first impression of this work.The novel has two main plots: a social novel of the Victorian era set in the real world, and a fairy tale with nonsense elements set in the fantasy world of Fairyland. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous vignette and full page illustrations from British illustrator Harry Furniss.With three pages of advertisements to the rear. The novel saw a second volume in 1893, titled 'Sylvie and Bruno Concluded&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Significant loss of cloth to back strip. Fading towards tail of front board. Joints starting, with boards a touch tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd spot to the first and last few leaves. Fair . Ill.: Harry Furniss. Fair .