Accession number
PML 20042
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Published
London : Chapman & Hall, 1843.
Credit line
Purchased in 1916.
Notes
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. Printer's ornament] London: Chapman & Hall, 186, Strand. MDCCCXLIII. [The date appears below the wave rule].
Engraving on p. 37 partially colored.
First ed.: first issue; yellow end papers; half-title printed in blue; title page printed in red and blue; stave I on page one; uncorrected text; misprint in leaf of advertisements.
Signatures: a⁴ b-l⁸ m⁴
Engraving on p. 37 partially colored.
First ed.: first issue; yellow end papers; half-title printed in blue; title page printed in red and blue; stave I on page one; uncorrected text; misprint in leaf of advertisements.
Signatures: a⁴ b-l⁸ m⁴
Description
8, 166, 2 p. including four engraved ill. in text on p. 37, 73, 119, 164, plus coloured frontispiece facing t-p. and three coloured plates facing p. 25, 78, 150, by John Leech.
Provenance
Coggeshall; Presentation copy from the author with autograph inscription: Albany Fonblanque Esquire from Charles Dickens seventeenth December 1843.
Binding
Original red cloth (faded to brown), in red morocco slip case.
Classification
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