DICKENS, Charles.

£1,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. First edition, with the first state of the advertisement leaf, only seen by Smith in a small number of copies. The Cricket on the Hearth, the third of Dickens's five Christmas books, was published on 20 December 1845 with a title page post-dated to 1846. It proved enormously popular, doubling the circulation of its predecessors.

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