DICKENS, CHARLES
A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1843. Copyright Edition. Early half green morocco by Zaehnsdorf. 6 1/8 x 4 inches (16 x 10.5 cm); half-title, 78 pp. with one hand-colored plate and four possibly proof plates before the addition of the publisher's imprint. Bookplate of Dickens scholar Charles Plumptre Johnson, wear to front joint, the text with a few spots or small stains, the plates clean.
An interesting early printing of A Christmas Carol published in 1843 to secure an international copyright.