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The cricket on the hearth : autograph manuscript, [after 1845].

Accession number: 
PML 250496
Author: 
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Description: 
1 item ([4], 98 p.) : ill. ; 26 x 25 mm.
Credit: 
Bequest; Julia P. Wightman; 1994.
Notes: 

Manuscript text with 6 illustrations.
Half-title: "Ye Olde Holly Berry Edition."
Small circular engraving of Dickens portrait as frontispiece.
Pencil note on fly leaf: "Lady Henry Dickens collection."
Small patch correcting text, p. [57].

Binding: 
Dark blue morocco; back tooled with a leaf design; orange endpapers. Binding and orange niger solander case by Julia P. Wightman.
Provenance: 
From the collection of Julia P. Wightman (bookplate and stamp).
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Department: 
Printed Books