The Cricket on The Hearth. New York: G.P. Putnam’s & Sons, 1900. Pp xii, 174, uncut. Publisher’s green cloth boards, ornately decorated in gilt with floral holly bush in red & black. Title page attractively printed in green & gold. Light scuffing to boards, otherwise a nice clean copy.

With twelve photogravure plates & sixteen Illustrations by Canadian painter Frederick Simpson Coburn. His charming winter scenes became popular imagery for Christmas cards and calendars.

The third in the series of Dicken’s ‘Christmas Books’ it was first published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20th December, 1845