The Cricket on the Hearth a Fairy Tale of Home.

First edition, first state. With fourteen illustrations. 8vo. [8], 174, [2, advertisements] pp. Original red cloth, front board and spine decorated in gilt, all edges gilt. London, Bradbury and Evans.

A good copy, rebacked, corners and edges worn, new end papers. Book plate to front paste down and neat ownership inscription to recto of frontispiece, slight lean to textblock. 

Walter E. Smith, Charles Dickens in Original Cloth Part 2. 6.

Stock Code: 241221