![]() Smith, stating that “various theories concerning states and issues of this, the first edition” exist. The catalog record in Holmes claims that this book is a first edition, but also directs patrons to another work, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth: A Bibliographical Catalogue of His Writings in Book Form in England with Facsimiles of the Bindings and Title Pages by Walter E. ![]() One of the first items to come up in the catalog was a copy of A Christmas Carol from 1843, the year Dickens’s first Christmas story was published. While deciding on a topic for this blog post, I searched the Burns library’s holdings of the works of Charles Dickens, an author who is a frequent subject of my research. ![]() ![]() Īs a student assistant in the Burns Library Reading Room and a graduate student in the English department at Boston College, I occasionally have the privilege of combining my scholarly interest in Victorian literature with my practical responsibilities at the Burns Library. The cover of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, PR4572. ![]()
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