Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection

Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection

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Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1846, eleventh edition, first Bradbury and Evans issue

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September 24, 03:31 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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DICKENS, CHARLES

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Printed and Published for the Author by Bradbury and Evans, 1846


12mo (161 x 101mm.), eleventh edition, FIRST BRADBURY AND EVANS ISSUE, frontispiece and 3 plates hand-coloured, and 4 woodcuts in the text by John Leech, half-title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, 2pp. of publisher's advertisements printed at end, original red vertically-waved cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, cream endpapers, all edges gilt, previous ownership inscription to front paste-down, minor browning, hinges starting, small scratch to upper board, bumped


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Smith II:4A