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Publication: A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

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  • Publication: A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of ChristmasPublication Record # 558950
  • Author: Charles Dickens
  • Date: 1843-12-20
  • Publisher: Chapman & Hall
  • Price:
    5/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
  • Pages: 168
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: CHAPBOOK
  • Notes:
    • Second edition (a.k.a. second printing) published in December, 1843, but later than the 18th. Date of publication shown, the 20th, is likely too early, but is used here to give proper precedence in the display between the first and second printing.
    • Interior art consists of "Etched frontispiece and three plates by John Leech, all hand-coloured, and four wood-engravings in the text by W.J. Linton" (Christie's Auction House).
    • Data from Bloomsbury Auctions.
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Chapbook Title: A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas • (1843) • chapbook by Charles Dickens

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