"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Sylvie and Bruno. Together with Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. With illustrations by Harry Furniss.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889, 1893. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxiii [1], blank; 400; [3], ads; [1], blank; pp.xxxi; [1], blank; 323; [2], blank; [5], ads; [1], blank. Two volumes. Illustrated frontispieces, with in-text illustrations throughout. Publisher's red cloth decoratively blocked in gilt, coated black endpapers, all edges gilt. This copy with the RARE loose slip recalling the poorly printed edition of 'Alice Through The Looking-Glass'. Contents clean and fresh, covers bright. Some trivial handling and bubbling to cloth on rear cover of firts vol. An unquestionably fine set. Outstanding. A lesser-known fantasy from the creator of Alice in Wonderland, concerning two eponymous fairy children. Item #73648
Williams & Madan. Provenance: Joan Whitney (1903-1975), American philanthropist, collector, co-founder and owner of New York Mets MLB (discreet engraved bookplate).
Price: £895.00
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