Item #47271 The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. Charles DICKENS.

The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home.

London: Printed and Published for the Author by Bradbury and Evans, 1846 [but 1845]. Seventeenth edition, small 8vo, (viii), 174, (2 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece, engraved title and 12 vignette engravings, contemporary signature to title. Original gilt decorated red cloth, recently rebacked retaining almost all of the original backstrip. The third of Dickens' Christmas Books, and commercially the most successful, running to 22 editions by 1847. Item #47271

Price: £150.00

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