THE TRAIN: a first-class magazine. Vol I. - from January to June, 1856. [- Vol.V. - from January to June, 1858. All published.]

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full-page wood engraved illustrations, and vignette engraved illustrations, all on letterpress, occasional light spotting, pp. iv, 384; iv, 384; iv, 384; iv, 380; iv, 384 (recte 380, pp. 61-64 omitted from the pagination), 8vo, original blue cloth with blind-stamped border-designs to both boards, backstrips lettered in gilt, the cloth a little darkened in places, a few bumps, some rubbing and light wear at extremities, a.e.g., cream or yellow endpapers, each bearing original binder's ticket to rear pastedown, good. Scarce. A monthly magazine started by Edmund H. Yates and friends, with contributions from Frank Smedley, William Hale, G.A. Sala, Frederick Arnold, et al. The magazine is noteworthy for containing eight contributions by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. The first of these, a poem entitled 'Solitude', is the first published work to bear Dodgson's famous pseudonym, 'Lewis Carroll', which is also deployed for the two further contributions to this volume; three contributions under that name are also made to the second number, with a further one in each of the following two issues. (Willams [Crutch] 14).

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Titel

THE TRAIN: a first-class magazine. Vol I. - from January to June, 1856. [- Vol.V. - from January to June, 1858. All published.]

Verlag

Groombridge & Sons - 1858

Erscheinungsjahr

1856

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