DICKENS, Charles

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First Edition. First printing, with uncommon first state of the advertisement leaf for Oliver Twist beginning "On the First of January...". 12mo (17cm). Rebound in early twentieth-century half leather, gilt decoration and title on spine, cloth-covered boards, with original cloth from front board and spine bound in at rear; marbled endpapers; 2pp of ads at rear; [8], [1]-174, [2] pp; frontispiece, vignette title page, and 12 illustrations in the text. Clean and sturdy, with some wear to top edges of boards and ad leaf at rear partially detached: a Very Good copy.

One of Dickens' three Christmas books, complete with half-title, ad leaf, and all 14 illustrations by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer, with some but not all of the internal flaws listed in Smith. Though the title page states 1846, this book was actually first published in late December 1845. ECKEL p.119-20. YALE/GIMBEL A92. SMITH II (Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth) pp. 37-43.

Price: $350.00

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