The Cricket on the Hearth
a fairy tale of home
by Charles Dickens
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One of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days.
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English Christmas stories, Short stories, Christmas stories, Social life and customs, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, English Short stories, Social conditions, England, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Children's fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Christmas, fiction, Fairy tales, Large type books, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, generalPeople
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Edition Notes
Printed for the members of Limited Editions Club by the Golden Cockerel Press
"This edition ... reprinted from the first edition published by Bradbury and Evans in 1846 ... consists of fifteen hundred copies designed by Robert Gibbings"--Colophon.
Issued in slipcase.
LC has copy no. 1 in slipcase.
Newman & Wiche. Great and good books, 51
Limited Editions Club. Bibliography of the fine books published by the Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985, no. 51
Acquired as part of an archival set from the publisher in 2008.
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| February 29, 2020 | Edited by lisaBot | moving edition(s) to primary work |
| February 6, 2015 | Edited by Robina Fox | revised note |
| February 6, 2015 | Edited by Robina Fox | publisher |
| February 6, 2015 | Edited by Robina Fox | corrected author |
| July 26, 2011 | Created by LC Bot | Imported from Library of Congress MARC record. |