Dickens, Charles

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

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Description

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843
ink,paper

12mo (159 x 100 mm). Half-title in blue, title in blue & red dated 1843, page 1 with "Stave One" and corrected text, engraved frontispiece and 3 plates by John Leechman all hand-colored, 2 pp publisher's advertisements at end. Half red morocco by McRrell; spine faintly sunned, extremities of spine and corners lightly rubbed.

Provenance

Alan G. Thomas (bookplate)

Literature

Eckel pp. 110-115; Smith 2:4

Catalogue Note

Second edition.