First German Edition of A Christmas Carol
Der Weihnachtsabend. Eine Geistergeschichte.
Leipzig: J. J. Weber, 1844.
Price: $3,000.00
About the item
Leech, John. First German-language edition, translated by E. A. Moriarty. Frontispiece and 7 etched plates by John Leech, uniform half-title for Weber's collected edition of Dickens's works in German. In 8s (6 x 4 1/4 in.; 152 x 110 mm). Publisher's cloth-backed green marbled boards, gray endpapers, marbled edges; extremities rather rubbed. Gimbel/Podeschi D4 (for later collected German ed., but see note for this ed.).
Item #376046
The first German editions of Dickens’ first two Christmas books. Not in the Gimbel collection, and rare on the market. All of John Leech's illustrations for the original English edition, including the four wood-engraved text vignettes, are rendered as etched plates for this edition.
