DICKENS, Charles
The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
A fine, complete set of the Christmas books, beautifully bound by Bayntun. A Christmas Carol with first edition title page but corrected text; first edition, first issue of The Chimes; first edition of The Cricket on the Hearth; first edition, fourth issue of the vignette title page of The Battle of Life; first edition of The Haunted Man. All works with original illustrations, including four full-color plates in A Christmas Carol. Each volume has been uniformly bound in three-quarter, gilt-ruled morocco with gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers and all edges gilt. A lovely set, housed in a custom, half morocco gilt clamshell box.
[BTC #78540]
