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1. Daniel Maclise. 2. Daniel Maclise. 3. Richard Doyle. 4. Clarkson Stanfield
5.John Leech. 6. John Leech. 7. Richard Doyle. 8. John Leech
9. Edwin Landseer. 10. John Leech. 11. John Leech.
12. Richard Doyle. 13. John Leech. 14. John Leech.
Related Material: Other Editions
- Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s Christmas Books (Diamond Edition, 1867)
- E. A. Abbey's Christmas Stories (American Household Edition, 1876)
- Fred Barnard's Christmas Books (British Household Edition, 1878)
- Felix O. C. Darley's character study Bertha, the Blind Girl, May Fielding, and Caleb Plummer (1888)
- Harry Furniss's Christmas Books (Charles Dickens Library Edition, 1910)
- Luigi Rossi's The Cricket on the Hearth (Pears' Centenary Edition, 1912)
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Bibliography
Cohen, Jane Rabb. Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators. Columbus: Ohio State U. P., 1980.
Dickens, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. Illustrated by John Leech, Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, and Edwin Landseer. Engraved by George Dalziel, Edward Dalziel, T. Williams, J. Thompson, R. Graves, and Joseph Swain. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846 [December 1845].
__________. The Christmas Books. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. Charles Dickens Library Edition. 18 vols. London: Educational Book Company, 1910, VIII, 79-157.
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Morley, Malcolm. "'The Cricket' on the Stage." Dickensian 48 (1952): 17-24.
Thomas, Deborah A. Chapter 4, "The Chord of the Christmas Season." Dickens and The Short Story. Philadelphia: U. Pennsylvania Press, 1982, 62-93.
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