Sylvie and Bruno Concluded by L. Carroll

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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded by Lewis Carroll

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded in very good condition. With inscription from the author, “Mrs Falle with the Author’s sincere regards, Dec 27 1893.” on the half title page. With forty six Illustrations by Harry Furniss. Original red cloth boards with spotting on the front cover. Lightly faded spine. All edges gilt. Clean end papers. Tissue guarded illustration. 8vo 423 pp with advertisements and specimen page at rear.

Dodgson was a friend of the Falle family, Joshua Falle, a Jersey judge and his wife and children. His diary entry for the 21st July, 1871 records that “Mr Falle gave me a photo of his second girl, Albina (Lily)“. He had previously written to the the judge, requesting if he could buy a print, stating “if you ever had a good one taken of your little daughter (a vignette of the head and shoulders would be the best form)”, advising that he had a “a very large collection of photographs ~(many of my own doing) including many portraits of my young friends”. Lily Falle never married and was in her late nineties when she died in 1957.

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