The Cricket on the Hearth

by Charles Dickens

$1,600 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Richard Doyle, John Leech, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield. First edition. Hardcover. This is the first edition, first printing, first state, of the third Dickens Christmas book, an unrestored copy in the publisher’s original illustrated red cloth. Condition is very good. The elaborately gilt and blind stamped red cloth remains square, bright,

• Binding: Hardcover

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