A Christmas carol, in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas /
by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by John Leech.

Description

Main Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Related Names

Stahl, John L., donor.
Kebler, Leonard, donor.
Leech, John, 1817-1864, illustrator.
Chapman and Hall
Bradbury & Evans

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars
London : Chapman & Hall, 186, Strand, 1843.

Subjects

Scrooge, Ebenezer.
Scrooge, Ebenezer > Scrooge, Ebenezer / Fiction.
Sick children.
Poor families.
Misers.
Christmas > Christmas / Fiction.
Ghosts > Ghosts / Fiction.
Misers > Misers / Fiction.
Sick children > Sick children / Fiction.
Poor families > Poor families / Fiction.
England > England / London.
London (England) > London (England) / Fiction.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Signed bindings (Binding)
Ghost stories.
Christmas fiction.
Ghost stories.
Ghost stories.
Fiction.
Christmas stories.
Christmas fiction.
Hand coloring.
Hand-colored illustrations.
Christmas stories.

Summary

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

Note

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.
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.
Plates are hand-colored.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-L⁸ M⁴.
"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 with to lay it. Thei faithful friend and servant, C.D., december, 1843"Preface.
LC Copy 2: Gift of John L. Stahl.
LC Copy 1: Gift of Leonard Kebler, Nov. 27, 1946; inscription: Fanny Drake, Christmas, 1863.

Physical Description

166 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (4 color) ; 17 cm

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