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细节
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.
First edition, first issue, of the most famous Christmas story in the English language. With 'Stave I' as the first chapter heading. A masterpiece of English literature and arguably the most widely read and best known of Dickens’s works. Eckel p.110; Smith II, 4.
Octavo (164 x 102mm). 2-page publisher's advertisement at end. Hand-coloured etched frontispiece and three plates by John Leech, four wood-engravings in the text by W.J. Linton after Leech. Half-title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, verso printed in blue (tear in title neatly repaired, chip in lower corner of K1, occasional spots and stains). Original brown fine-ribbed cloth, covers with decorative blind border surrounding central gilt cartouche and lettering on upper, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt (minor repairs to corners and head- and tailcaps, green endpapers rubbed as usual, hinges cracked but holding). Provenance: Hugh Walpole (English novelist, 1884-1941; ‘Brackenburn’ bookplate).
First edition, first issue, of the most famous Christmas story in the English language. With 'Stave I' as the first chapter heading. A masterpiece of English literature and arguably the most widely read and best known of Dickens’s works. Eckel p.110; Smith II, 4.
Octavo (164 x 102mm). 2-page publisher's advertisement at end. Hand-coloured etched frontispiece and three plates by John Leech, four wood-engravings in the text by W.J. Linton after Leech. Half-title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, verso printed in blue (tear in title neatly repaired, chip in lower corner of K1, occasional spots and stains). Original brown fine-ribbed cloth, covers with decorative blind border surrounding central gilt cartouche and lettering on upper, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt (minor repairs to corners and head- and tailcaps, green endpapers rubbed as usual, hinges cracked but holding). Provenance: Hugh Walpole (English novelist, 1884-1941; ‘Brackenburn’ bookplate).
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