NMLP P-041513 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home

Charles Dickens · Bradbury and Evans, London (printed for the author) · 1846

Publisher's binding is red ribbed cloth, covers blind-decorated, the upper cover with a pictorial gilt fireplace design, spine lettered and ornamented in gilt, pale yellow-coated endpapers, all edges gilt (Sotheby's describes the cloth as vertically ribbed, Jarndyce as horizontal-grained - the grain description is not settled, the color is)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041513 for "The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home" by Charles Dickens (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041513, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).