Accession number
PML 20043
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Published
Philadelphia : Carey & Hart, 1844.
Notes
First American ed., 1844. Same as first English ed. with the following differences: blue binding; plain end papers; frontispiece "Morley's Ghost" instead of "Mr. Fezziwig's Ball"; new t-p.; the four engravings from the original text are inserted as plates; no imprint on last page; leaf advertising the works of Mr. Charles Dickens lacking; the fall of the lines and agination differ throughout; the plates are engraved by P.S. Duval instead of Linton.
First American ed.
T-p.: [Within a wave rule border with small printers ornament in each corner] A Christmas carol in prose being a ghost story of Christmas, by Charles Dickens. With illustrations by John Leech. Philadelphia; Carey & Hart, 1844.
First American ed.
T-p.: [Within a wave rule border with small printers ornament in each corner] A Christmas carol in prose being a ghost story of Christmas, by Charles Dickens. With illustrations by John Leech. Philadelphia; Carey & Hart, 1844.
Description
6-158, plus coloured frontispiece facing t-p., three coloured lithographs facing pages 59, 75, 143 and four engraved plates facing p. 36, 71, 113, 157, by John Leech.
Provenance
Coggeshall.
Binding
Original blue cloth in blue cloth box.
Classification
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Department