The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home

by Charles Dickens

$925 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: Chapman and Hall, 1846. 8vo, viii , 174, 2 ads, pp. Finely rebound in red leather with panels of the original cloth preserved as onlays, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Binding a little tight, contents age toned in places; very good. § First edition, complete with half title and first state of the advertisement leaf. Dickens' third Christmas book, for which he spun a sentimental fantasy without the heavy moral message of his previous two novellas.

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