'Sylvie and Bruno' by Lewis Carroll dated 1889 and has forty six fabulous illustrations by the well-known illustrator Harry Furniss (26 March 1854 – 14 January 1925) who established his career on the Illustrated London News before moving to Punch.. It was published by Macmillan & Co. and printed by Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd with the “Prestone & Knapp of The Poultry, Nottingham booksellers” label in the front. With 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss in each volume. Each frontispiece with tissue guard. Original publisher's red cloth, gilt illustration on each over, title in gilt on spines, which are both slightly darkened, all edges gilt. Overall a fine set. First edition. It is in excellent condition, the pages have retained their gilt edges and there is no damage to the spine. The cover is faded and it measures 190mm (7.5") by 140mm (5.5") with 400 pages. CARROLL, Lewis Published by Macmillan and Co., London, 1889 FIRST EDITIONS. With 46 illustrations by Harry Furniss in each volume. Each frontispiece with tissue guard. Original publisher's red cloth, gilt illustration on each over, title in gilt on spines, which are both slightly darkened, all edges gilt. Overall a fine set. First edition. This is the last full-length novel by Carroll during his lifetime and is rated as high as “Alice in Wonderland”. Sylvie and Bruno is a social novel treating many of the Victorian-era issues such as morality, religion, and society in general. "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." The second part is written in the same style as the first, being in fact a succession of scenes with slight connexion or sequence, such as Bruno's lessons, fairy music, Bruno's picnic, the Professor's lecture the pig-tale. There is more of serious tone than before, and some real tragedy . but the humour is well sustained . The preface is of great interest, for Dodgson defines the limitations under which he conceives of fairies, their powers and forms, and of psychical states of human beings, showing how carefully chastened his apparently riotous imagination was."