Title-Page (1869)"
Sol Eytinge
printed
19.2 high x 11.9 cm.; i. e., 7.5 inches high x 4.62 inches
Title-page Dickens's A Christmas Carol in Prose: being a ghost story of Christmas in the Ticknor and Fields (Boston) edition, 1869 (published at Christmas 1868).
This "twenty-fifth anniversary" edition" of A Christmas Carol commemorated the exclusive rights to volume publication in the United States (as distinct from serial rights) that Charles Dickens had recently assigned to Boston publisher and friend James T. Fields, who had already brought out an entire pocket edition of the novelist's works known as The Diamond Edition in 1867, coinciding with Dickens's second American reading tour. The American Carol octavo edition has 111 pages and some 34 illustrations, including twenty-two full-page woodcuts by noted house illustrator Sol Eytinge, Junior, and house engraver Andrew Varik Stout Anthony (1835-1906)
Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.