The Cricket on the hearth : in three chirps : [London] : autograph manuscript signed, [1845].
Record ID:
108224
Accession number:
MA 949
Date:
[1845].
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1919.
Description:
1 item [4] (3-72 p.) ; 22.5 x 18.5 cm
Notes:
The notes for names of characters, list of trial titles, and pages 1 and 48 are loose in a folder preceding the manuscript. The note from Georgina Hogarth is encapsulated in mylar but not post-bound.
With notes for names of characters (MA 949.1); an autograph title page and list of trial titles (MA 949.2); and an undated note from Georgina Hogarth (MA 949.3) preceding the manuscript. These items are cataloged individually in three additional records; see related records for complete description.
Summary:
Manuscript with innumerable cancellations and revisions. Manuscript is signed on accompanying title page (MA 949.2).
Binding:
Previously encapsulated and mounted in tan cloth post binding. Disbound and housed in four-flap folder and custom box, as of 2021.
Provenance:
Bookplate of Charles Dickens; given in 1871 by John Forster to Charles Dickens' sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth; purchased from Miss Hogarth by the London dealer Spenser; purchased from Spenser by Edmund D. Brooks of Minneapolis; purchased from Brooks by the London dealer Frank Sabin; purchased from Sabin by the New York dealer Gabriel Wells; purchased from Wells by J. P. Morgan Jr. in 1919.
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