DICKENS (CHARLES)
The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home, FIRST EDITION, with the first state of the Oliver Twist advertisement at end, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and illustrations by Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise and Landseer, publisher's red pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind, yellow endpapers, spine faded with ends slightly worn [Eckel, p.119; Smith II:6], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, 1846 [1845]
Footnotes:
First edition of the third Christmas book, with the advertisement in the rare first state, 'the best indication of early copies... I have found the second state of the advertisement in all but a few copies of the first edition that I have reviewed' (Smith).

Provenance: Bonhams, 19 October 2004, lot 188.
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