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Author: Dickens, Charles
Title: Set of the five Christmas books in first edition
Place Published: London
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Date Published: 1843-1848
Description:

Comprises:

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  A Christmas Carol, in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. Illustrated by John Leech with 4 hand-colored etched plates & 4 engravings in the text. Title-page printed in red & blue, its verso & half-title in blue; "Stave I" as first chapter heading. 1st Edition, 1st Issue, 2nd State. 1843.


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  The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Illustrated with wood engravings after Richard Doyle, John Leech & Clarkson Stanfield; steel-engraved frontispiece & added title after Daniel Maclise (second state of the added title). 1st Edition. 1845.


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  The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. Illustrated with wood engravings after Richard Doyle, John Leech, E. Landseer & Clarkson Stanfield; steel-engraved frontispiece & added title after Daniel Maclise. Lacking advertisement leaf. 1st Edition. 1846.


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  The Battle of Life: A Love Story. Illustrated with wood engravings after Richard Doyle, John Leech, Daniel Maclise & Clarkson Stanfield; steel-engraved frontispiece & added title after Maclise (fourth state of the added title). 1st Edition. 1846.


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  The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas Time. Illustrated with wood engravings after John Tenniel, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech & Frank Stone; frontispiece & added title after Tenniel. 1st Edition. 1848.

Together 5 volumes, advertisements not retained when bound. Uniformly bound in full tan calf, spines gilt, red and black labels, all edges gilt. First Editions.

Lovely set of first editions of Dickens' Christmas books. Bookplates of E.D. Church.

Spines sunned, joints cracked, some hinges repaired; very good.