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THE WILLIAMS EDITION OF
A CHRISTMAS CAROL and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND LINE BY
GEORGE ALFRED WILLIAMS
A COMPANION VOLUME TO “MR. PICKWICK’S CHRISTMAS”
$2.00
THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO.
...Publishers...
33–37 EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK
As brisk as bees, if not altogether as light as fairies, did the four Pickwickians assemble....
MR. PICKWICK’S CHRISTMAS
 
 BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE PICKWICKIANS’ CHRISTMAS AT THE MANOR FARM, OF THE ADVENTURES THERE; THE TALE OF THE GOBLIN WHO STOLE A SEXTON, AND OF THE FAMOUS SPORTS ON THE ICE
AS WRITTEN IN THE PICKWICK PAPERS
By CHARLES DICKENS
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND LINE
By GEORGE ALFRED WILLIAMS
THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY
Publishers
33–37 East Seventeenth Street (Union Square North)
NEW YORK
Copyright, 1906, by The Baker & Taylor Company
Published, September, 1906
The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
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INTRODUCTION
To begin with nothing and end with somethingas great as Pickwick is an achievementgiven to few men to realise. Yet it seemsthat in this most haphazard way Pickwick wascreated.
At the age of twenty-three Charles Dickensopened his door in Furnival’s Inn to the managingpartner of the firm of “Chapman and Hall.”
The idea then propounded to Dickens was thata monthly publication should be the vehicle forcertain plates to be executed by Robert Seymour,an admirable humourist-artist of great popula                        
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