The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home

The census claim is correct and needs no correction: Bradbury and Evans, London, title dated 1846, issued December 1845, and it is indeed the third of the five Christmas Books, completing the set with The Haunted Man alongside A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Battle of Life. Note only that the imprint is 'for the author' - Dickens retained the publishing risk on the Christmas Books - and that the full title is 'The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home'. No American or other edition holds precedence over the London issue; the 1845/1846 date discrepancy is a post-dated title-page, not a precedence question.