Lavishly bound by Ramage with a striking floral design in green, red, and gold, perfectly capturing the spirit of Christmas.
A Christmas Carol being a later 1855 edition with a supplied title page dated 1843, with all the textual corrections made up until that point, and adverts at the back which correlate with the 1855 edition published by Bradbury & Evans; frontispiece and three hand coloured engravings, and four in text woodcuts. The Chimes, first edition, with first state vignette title page; frontispiece, vignette title page, and eleven engravings. The Cricket on the Hearth, first edition, missing final advertisement leaf; frontispiece, vignette title page and twelve engravings. The Battle of Life, first edition, Smith’s fourth state of the vignette title page, missing final advertisement leaf; frontispiece, vignette title page, and eleven engravings. The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, first edition, missing advert leaves at the front, and half title moved from after the contents page to before the title vignette; frontispiece, vignette title page, and fifteen engravings.
Very good, covers bright, with occasional very light scuffs from handling, spines professionally recoloured by Stuart Brockman, contents bright and clean throughout.
Walter E. Smith, Charles Dickens in Original cloth, part II; 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. Podeschi, Dickens, The Gimbel Collection; A79, A86, A92, A116, A119.
