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"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

Chapman & Hall, London - 1843 first UK edition second issue (hand-colored etched frontispiece and only two hand-colored etched plates by John Leech present, four wood-engravings in-text by W.J. Linton after Leech, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, white endpapers) -166p, 14cmx12cm - condition: good, bound in the original mauve cloth with minor darkening and rubbing, white pastedowns and endpapers, corner cut of endpaper and half title page, lacks title page, frontispiece present, two coloured plates loose but present, all wood engravings present, advertisements starting Martin Chuzzlewit in rear. Rare copy in original binding

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

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