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A Christmas carol, in prose: being a ghost story of Christmas, [Author's personal prompt copy]
A Christmas carol, in prose: being a ghost story of Christmas, [Author's personal prompt copy]
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The only prompt copy Dickens used during his sixteen years of publicly reading A Christmas Carol.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
(Author)
Leech, John, 1817-1864
(Illustrator)
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Date Created:
1849 - 1859
(Questionable)
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Christmas carol
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Ownership: Charles Dickens (bookplate on front pastedown)
Date: Content publication: London : Bradbury and Evans, 1843 (Twelfth edition). 5th blank page includes dates of 1859 provincial reading tour.
Content: Includes four illustrations by John Leech on numbered pages 37, 73, 119, and 164
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Extent: [14], 166, [9] pages : 4 illustrations
Includes annotations by Dickens
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Other local Identifier: [uncataloged]
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e1951b10-d507-0136-fa03-60f81dd2b63c
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