Dickens, Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings; No Thoroughfare; The Cricket on the Hearth, 1845-1867

DICKENS, CHARLES

Two issues of "The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round", together with the stage adaptation of "The Cricket on the Hearth":

Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round... London: Chapman and Hall, 1863; [with Wilkie Collins:] No Thoroughfare...London: Chapman and Hall, 1867; these 8vo, original blue printed wrappers, some spotting, a few small tears, some slight staining; [together with:] Smith, Albert. The Entirely New and Original Drama in three parts, entitled, The Cricket on the Hearth, a Fairy Tale of Rome, dramatized ... from early proofs of the work, by .... Charles Dickens, Esq. as performed at the Theatre Royal Lyceum. London: W.S. Johnson, 1845, small 8vo (175 x 108mm.), original printed wrappers, some slight soiling; FIRST EDITIONS, all preserved in specially made blue cloth folding box 

Albert Smith's adaptation of Dickens' third Christmas Book The Cricket on the Hearth opened at the Lyceum Theatre on the same day (20 December 1845) as the book (see lot 122) was published.

REFERENCE:

Eckel p.196; Gimbel C96