A touch of mottling to the edge of the lower board. A little bumping and rubbing to spine ends and points. Its a stunning reproduction of the original from 1843, complete with illustrations by John Leech, whom Dickens personally commissioned.
Item Number: 4330 London: Chapman and Hall, 1843-48. Binding tight and secure, with the hinges intact. First Edition Set of Dickens' Christmas Books, Including a First Issue of A Christmas Carol The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Battle of Life Cricket on the Hearth The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain. Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay and Sons, Limited. The first of the Christmas books (Dickens released one a year from 18431847) it became an instant hit. Eighteen b&w illustrations, couple of which are two-page spreads, decorative headers, vignettes, and tail pieces throughout. The reader is witness to his transformation as Scrooge is shown the error of his ways by the ghost of former partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future. Includes 12 full-colour plates (four of these additional rarities not seen elsewhere by Arthur Rackham) tissue guards captioned. Illustrated endpapers of the greedy Scrooge and ebullient transformed character. Publisher's original olive green full-cloth boards, black cover design and titles, the designs depicting whimsical mischievous elves hanging from bells crisp spine titles and holly decoration with Heinemann at heel. Their Illustrated Edition of Dickens’s Christmas Carol comes betimes with the first snow and its beautiful pages will assuredly, and very speedily, be lit up by a ruddy glow from many a. Full red morocco, title in gilt on spine, decorative raised. London: William Heinemann, n.d.įirst edition thus. Sixth edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, published in 1844. Expand submenu Featured Authors Collapse submenu Featured Authors
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