DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas . London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.
DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas . London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. 8 o (162 x 100 mm). Half-title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, verso printed in blue. Hand-colored etched frontispiece and 3 hand-colored etched plates by John Leech 4 wood-engravings in the text by W.J. Linton after Leech. 2-page publisher's advertisement at end. (Lightly browned, a few pale 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, yellow endpapers (a few small stains, old discreet repairs to joints); red morocco pull-off case. FIRST EDITION, second issue, with "Stave I" as the first chapter heading, balance of text uncorrected, red and blue title-page dated 1843, yellow endpapers, with the first impression second issue second state of the binding (the upper serif of "D" of Dickens broken off). A MASTERPIECE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND ARGUABLY THE MOST WIDELY READ AND BEST KNOWN OF DICKENS'S WORKS. Written in a frenzy of less than a month with passion echoed in a letter to his American friend Professor Cornelius Felton, dated 2nd January 1844: "... a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens Over which Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wept, and laughed, and wept again, and excited himself in a most extraordinary manner in the composition; and thinking whereof, he walked about the black streets of London, fifteen and twenty miles, many a night when all the sober folks had gone to bed. He don't like America, I am told, but he has some friends there, as dear to him as any in England; so you may read it safely. Its success is most prodigious." Philo Calhoun and Howell J. Heaney, "Dickens' Christmas Carol After a Hundred Years: A Study in Bibliographical Evidence," in: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America , 39 (Fourth Quarter, 1945); Eckel, p. 110; Kitton, pp. 33-37; Smith II:4; William B. Todd, "Bibliographical Notes and Queries. Note 170. Dickens's A Christmas Carol ," in: The Book Collector , 1961, pp. 449-54.
DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas . London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.
DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas . London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. 8 o (162 x 100 mm). Half-title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, verso printed in blue. Hand-colored etched frontispiece and 3 hand-colored etched plates by John Leech 4 wood-engravings in the text by W.J. Linton after Leech. 2-page publisher's advertisement at end. (Lightly browned, a few pale 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, yellow endpapers (a few small stains, old discreet repairs to joints); red morocco pull-off case. FIRST EDITION, second issue, with "Stave I" as the first chapter heading, balance of text uncorrected, red and blue title-page dated 1843, yellow endpapers, with the first impression second issue second state of the binding (the upper serif of "D" of Dickens broken off). A MASTERPIECE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND ARGUABLY THE MOST WIDELY READ AND BEST KNOWN OF DICKENS'S WORKS. Written in a frenzy of less than a month with passion echoed in a letter to his American friend Professor Cornelius Felton, dated 2nd January 1844: "... a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens Over which Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wept, and laughed, and wept again, and excited himself in a most extraordinary manner in the composition; and thinking whereof, he walked about the black streets of London, fifteen and twenty miles, many a night when all the sober folks had gone to bed. He don't like America, I am told, but he has some friends there, as dear to him as any in England; so you may read it safely. Its success is most prodigious." Philo Calhoun and Howell J. Heaney, "Dickens' Christmas Carol After a Hundred Years: A Study in Bibliographical Evidence," in: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America , 39 (Fourth Quarter, 1945); Eckel, p. 110; Kitton, pp. 33-37; Smith II:4; William B. Todd, "Bibliographical Notes and Queries. Note 170. Dickens's A Christmas Carol ," in: The Book Collector , 1961, pp. 449-54.
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