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A Christmas carol in prose : being a ghost story of Christmas / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by John Leech.

Accession number
PML 127603
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Published
London : Chapman & Hall, 1843.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1993.
Notes
Second state of first edition (cf. Gimbel) or second issue (cf. Eckel): t.p. in blue and red; yellow lining papers; "Stave I" on p. [1].
"London: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars"--T.p. verso.
Plates hand-colored.
Tipped-in: watercolor "The Christmas Bowl" by John Leech of Scrooge, Cratchit, and the bowl of smoking bishop.
Description
166 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
From the library of John Gribbel.
Binding
Red morocco, gold-tooled, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; the original salmon ribbed cloth boards and spine bound in at end; slipcase.
Classification
Department