Lewis Carroll; Hugh J. Schonfield — For the Train: Five Poems and a Tale

London, Denis Archer, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of short works from Lewis Carroll original written for The Train. First edition. Originally published in The Train between 1856 and 1857, together with some Carrollean episodes concerning trains. Illustrated throughout. A collection of five poems and one short story from Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon, best known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. Titles include: Solitude, The Path of Roses, The Three Voices, The Sailor's Wife, Hiawatha's Photographing, and Novelty and Romancement. Arranged with a preface by Hugh Joseph Schonfield, a British Bible scholar specialising in the New Testament and the early development of the Christian religion and church. With the original illustrations by Charles Henry Bennett, a British Victorian illustrator who pioneered techniques in comic illustration, and William McConnell, an English illustrator and cartoonist. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot to the foredge. Light age toning to the endpapers with colourful stickers to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: C. H. Bennett; W. McConnell. Very Good .