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DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.
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DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.
8o (159 x 102 mm). 2-page publisher's advertisement at end. Hand-colored etched frontispiece and three plates by John Leech, four wood-engravings in the text by W.J. Linton after Leech (lightly browned, one or two minor marginal stains). Half-title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, verso printed in blue. Later half calf (front cover detached). Provenance: James E. Parish (gift inscription from Susan Parish dated 1918 on front flyleaf).
FIRST EDITION, second issue, with "Stave One" as the first chapter heading, balance of text uncorrected, red and blue title-page dated 1843. Philo Calhoun and Howell J. Heaney, "Dickens' Christmas Carol After a Hundred Years: A Study in Bibliographical Evidence," in: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 39 (Fourth Quarter, 1945); Eckel, p. 110; Kitton, pp. 33-37; Smith II:4.
8o (159 x 102 mm). 2-page publisher's advertisement at end. Hand-colored etched frontispiece and three plates by John Leech, four wood-engravings in the text by W.J. Linton after Leech (lightly browned, one or two minor marginal stains). Half-title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, verso printed in blue. Later half calf (front cover detached). Provenance: James E. Parish (gift inscription from Susan Parish dated 1918 on front flyleaf).
FIRST EDITION, second issue, with "Stave One" as the first chapter heading, balance of text uncorrected, red and blue title-page dated 1843. Philo Calhoun and Howell J. Heaney, "Dickens' Christmas Carol After a Hundred Years: A Study in Bibliographical Evidence," in: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 39 (Fourth Quarter, 1945); Eckel, p. 110; Kitton, pp. 33-37; Smith II:4.