{"id":1752,"date":"2012-12-04T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2019-01-14T21:50:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:50:26","slug":"charles-dickens-a-christmas-carol-on-display-in-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2012\/12\/04\/charles-dickens-a-christmas-carol-on-display-in-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Dickens&#8217; A Christmas Carol on Display in Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/12\/PB280160.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1753\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/12\/PB280160-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/12\/PB280160-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/files\/2012\/12\/PB280160.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Charles Dickens&#8217; A Christmas Carol was an instant publishing success, and it remains a beloved piece of literature today, celebrated during the Christmas season around the world.\u00a0 The first edition, printed in 1843, includes four hand-colored steel engravings by John Leech.\u00a0 Our copy of this work comes from the collection of James Wallace, a collector of children&#8217;s books with a fine eye for condition and rarity.\u00a0 Several of the high points in children&#8217;s literature from our collections were obtained by Wallace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thoughout the month of December we will be consecutively displaying each of the four hand-colored\u00a0illustrations.\u00a0 Stop by Special Collections on the third floor of the Main Library\u00a0where it will be on display in the case just inside the doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Dickens&#8217; A Christmas Carol was an instant publishing success, and it remains a beloved piece of literature today, celebrated during the Christmas season around the world.\u00a0 The first edition, printed in 1843, includes four hand-colored steel engravings by John Leech.\u00a0 Our copy of this work comes from the collection of James Wallace, a collector<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2012\/12\/04\/charles-dickens-a-christmas-carol-on-display-in-special-collections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Charles Dickens&#8217; A Christmas Carol on Display in Special Collections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,51,37],"syndication":[435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}