Sylvie and Bruno
- Date:
- 1889.
- Author:
- Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898, author.
- Collecting Area:
- Mathes Childrens Literature
- Call Number:
- YH C319 S95 1889 LOCAL
- Publisher:
- Macmillan and Co.
- Abstract:
- The Narrator tells of two worlds: Victorian England and the love of Arthur and Eric for Lady Muriel; and the fairyland of Dogland, Outland, and Elfland where brother and sister fairies' father is involved in a power struggle.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 400 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : frontispiece, illustrations ; 19 cm
- Series:
- Children's book collection and Children's book collection.
- Notes:
- Illustrated by wood engravings. LOCAL
- Curator Notes:
- 1889 Macmillan (London and NY) imprint [1st edition]; in his preface Carroll notes that beside presenting 'what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life' and he puts forth some ideas for children's books presenting selections from the Bible and other literature including Shakespeare; spine repaired and obscured by black tape, vignettes and rulings on front and back covers stamped in gold on red cloth, gilt edges
- Subjects:
- Fantasy and Fantasy
- Genres/Forms:
- Book-cloth Color Green, Book-cloth Grain pattern Rib, Bookbinding Techniques Black stamping, Bookbinding Techniques Blind stamping, Bookbinding Techniques Gold stamping, Decoration/Ornament Floral, Decoration/Ornament Vines, Cloth case bindings. aat, Gilt edges (gathered matter components. aat, Gold-blocked bindings. aat, Line blocks. aat, Ownership inscriptions. aat, Publishers' advertisements. aat, Children's books. aat, Fantasy fiction, Fantastic fiction. gsafd, Fantasy fiction. lcgft, Publishers' advertisements 1889. rbgenr, Fantasy literature 1889. rbgenr, Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) rbbin, Gold tooled bindings (Binding) rbbin, Blind tooled bindings (Binding) rbbin, Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance) rbprov, and Authors' presentation copies (Provenance) rbprov
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