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| Genre/Form: | Christmas stories Hand-colored illustrations Hand coloring ghost stories Christmas fiction Fiction Ghost stories Signed bindings (Binding) Histoires de fantômes Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Dickens, Charles. A Christmas carol |
| Named Person: | Ebenezer Scrooge; Ebenezer Scrooge |
| Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles Dickens; John Leech; Leonard Kebler; John L Stahl; Bradbury & Evans,; Chapman and Hall, |
| OCLC Number: | 55746801 |
| Notes: | First edition, first issue. "This issue, with yellow endpapers and "Stave I" is now accepted as the first. All known presentation copies are of this variant"--M. Sadleir, XIX century fiction. "I have endeavoured in this ghostly little book, to raise the ghost of an idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful friend and servant, C.D., December, 1843"--Preface. Title page printed in red and blue. Includes four illustrated plates in color and numerous black-and-white textual illustrations by John Leech. Publisher's advertisements on last two pages. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-L⁸ M⁴. Issued in publisher's brown ribbed cloth boards; title within holly wreath, both stamped in gilt on upper board; blind-stamped ivy borders; gilt spine title; glazed yellow endpapers; all edges gilt. LC Copy 1: First ed., first issue, with t.p. in red and blue, green endpapers, first chapter heading reads, "Stave I," and uncorrected text. Cf. Eckel. Bound in brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. LC Copy 2: First ed., third issue, with t.p. in red and blue, yellow endpapers, first chapter heading reads, "Stave One," and uncorrected text. Bookmark and bookplate of the Old Curiosity Shop laid in. |
| Description: | 8 unnumbered pages, 166 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (hand-colored etchings, woodcuts) ; 17 cm (8vo) |
| Other Titles: | Christmas carol |
| Responsibility: | by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by John Leech. |
Abstract:
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
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