A Christmas Carol in Prose by charles Dickens - 1869

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This is a beautiful edition - leather bound with gold trimmed pages Christmas Carol in Prose Being A Ghost story of Christmas By Charles Dickens with illustrations entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1868 by Ticknor and Fields in the clerks's office of the District Court of the Distric of Massachusetts. inside page reads: No Christmas story has gained such universal regard as Mr. Dickens'r Christmas Carol. The frequency with which the author has lately read this story to delighted audiences in America, as well as in England, while widely extending its popularity, has greatly strengthened a true appreciation of it. Mr. Dickens's American Publishers tfore believe that a new edition, giving adequate pictorial expression to the various characters which the Carol potrays, will address itself to a large circle of the best book-lovers; and they hope that this may prove such an edition. The drawings have been expressly made from new studies, by Mr. Eytinge, whose reputiation as an illustrator of Mr. Dickens's ideals has been so well establisjed by the designs that accompany the Diamond Edition. The engraving, by MR Anthony and the printing by the University Press have been done with a skill and delicacy which may be trusted to commend them fully to the public estimation. The contents Stave one- Marley's Ghost Stave two read more

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