1846 Charles Dickens : The Cricket on the Hearth : 1st Ed / 2nd State

The Cricket on the Hearth

By Charles Dickens 

London; Published for the Author by Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First Edition / Second State of the advertisment leaf (with the italic headline re-set too occupy three lines rather than two). 8vo. Original cloth binding. [8], 174, [2] pp. With engraved frontispiece and an emgraved title page. Illustrated by  Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, John Leech, Edwin Landseer, and Clarkson Stanfield.

CONDITION
A very good copy. The cloth binding is very good with light rubbing to the spine ends (see images. Inner and outer hinges secure with no cracking or separation. Endpapers very clean. Neat inscription written in pencil to the verso of the half-title page. All contents present and pages in very good clean condition throughout. Overall a tidy copy in very good condition.

(Desk, Lower Shelf)