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The Cricket on the Hearth.: A fairy tale of home.
de DICKENS, Charles
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London, United Kingdom
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London: Bradbury & Evans,, 1846 [i.e. 1845]. The third Christmas book in the elusive first state First edition, with the first state of the advertisement leaf, and unusual thus - Smith notes he has only seen a few copies in this state. The Cricket on the Hearth, the third of Dickens's five Christmas books, was published on 20 December 1845, the title page postdated 1846. It proved very popular - Dickens's friend Forster recorded that it doubled the circulation of its predecessors. That is since recognized as an exaggeration, but it nonetheless quickly underwent two editions, and by January there were 17 stage adaptations in progress (Schlicke, p. 128). The first state has the advertisement for Oliver Twist opening in two italic lines, the second state has the notice expanded to three. Octavo. Original red cloth, lettering and decoration to spine and front cover in gilt, elaborate frame stamped in blind to covers, yellow coated endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a custom red cloth solander box. Engraved frontispiece and title page, 12 illustrations in the text. Contemporary bookseller's ticket of G. Mann of Cornhill to front pastedown, and bookplate of Emanuel Boutcher (1824-1888) of Grateley House in Hampshire. Recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box. Very minimal sunning to spine and trivial splits at joint ends, ever so slightly shaken. A near-fine copy. Smith, II, 6; Eckel, pp. 119-20. Paul Schlicke, ed., The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens, 2011.
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- Título
- The Cricket on the Hearth.
- Autor
- DICKENS, Charles
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- Usado
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- London: Bradbury & Evans,
- Fecha de publicación
- 1846 [i.e. 1845]
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- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
