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Charles Dickens, with illustrations by John Leech
A Christmas Carol
London: Chapman and Hall, 1843
This copy was presented by Charles Dickens to the Reverend Edward Tagart, Dickens's Unitarian minister at Little Portland Street Chapel.
Shown are the title page and the hand-colored frontispiece, lithographed from an etching by John Leech, a caricaturist well known for his contributions to Punch magazine. |