[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] i.e. "Lewis CARROLL" & others. The Train: a first-class Magazine, London: Groombridge & Sons, January 1856-December 1857, volumes I - IV, 8°, illustrations (occasional light browning), non-uniform half calf (rubbed). [Williams, Madan, Green 14]; College Rhymes, contributed by members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, including Dodgson's poem A Sea Dirge, London: R. Griffin, Bohn & Co (and others), 1861, volumes I - II in one, 12°, clipped 2-line [incomplete] inscription by Dodgson tipped in at front, contemporary half calf (rubbed), bookplate of Henry Wagner. [Williams, Madan, Green 22] (5)

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[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] i.e. "Lewis CARROLL" & others. The Train: a first-class Magazine, London: Groombridge & Sons, January 1856-December 1857, volumes I - IV, 8°, illustrations (occasional light browning), non-uniform half calf (rubbed). [Williams, Madan, Green 14]; College Rhymes, contributed by members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, including Dodgson's poem A Sea Dirge, London: R. Griffin, Bohn & Co (and others), 1861, volumes I - II in one, 12°, clipped 2-line [incomplete] inscription by Dodgson tipped in at front, contemporary half calf (rubbed), bookplate of Henry Wagner. [Williams, Madan, Green 22] (5)

Lot Essay

The Train was a monthly magazine started by Edmund Yates. Dodgson made 8 contributions in poems and prose. The poem Solitude (volume I, pages 154-5) was the first published appearance of the pseudonym "Lewis Carroll".

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