The cricket on the hearth : a fairy tale of home
Date1846
Names
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
(author)
Bradbury & Evans
(publisher)
Bradbury & Evans
(printer)
Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870
(illustrator)
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883
(illustrator)
Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867
(illustrator)
Leech, John, 1817-1864
(illustrator)
Landseer, Edwin, Sir, 1802-1873
(illustrator)
Thompson, John, 1785-1866
(engraver)
Dalziel, George, 1815-1902
(engraver)
Williams, Thomas, approximately 1800-
(engraver)
Dalziel, Edward, 1817-1905
(engraver)
Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909
(engraver)
Groves, S. J.
(engraver)
Alternate Title
- Cricket on the hearth
Format
Actually originally published on December 20, 1845. Cf. Smith, W.E. Charles Dickens in the original cloth, II, p. 43. Osborne copy: navy blue full calf, edges gilt; gilt border on upper and lower covers; ornate gilt on spine with flower motif, raised bands; maroon endpapers. Original burgundy cloth covers and spine (pictorial gilt upper cover and spine) bound into the leather binding at the end of volume. The frontispiece, pictorial engraved added t.-p., and 12 text illustrations are engraved by Joseph Swain, Edward and George Dalziel, and others, after Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Sir Edwin Landseer; Publisher's advertisements (2 unnumbered pages) "New edition of Oliver Twist" and "Mr. Dickens's Works" follow page 174. The third in a series of five "Christmas books" published from 1843 to 1848.
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Medium
DimensionsCover size: 17 cm x 11 cm (6 11/16 in. x 4 5/16 in.)
Extent
- 174 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (frontispiece and added pictorial title page) : illustrations
Language
ProvenanceGift of William Barker
Usage Rights
Public Domain
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Call Number / Accession Number37131137031118D
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