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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