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Description
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A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843 12mo (6 5/8 x 4 in.; 167 x 102 mm). Title-page printed in red and blue with wood-engraved holly vignette, half-title printed in blue, handcolored etched frontispiece and 3 handcolored etched plates after and by John Leech, 4 wood-engraved text illustrations after Leech by J. W. Linton, terminal leaf of publisher's ads ("Works of Mr. Charles Dickens"); half-title lightly browned, occasional minor soiling. Publisher's cinammon-brown rib-grained cloth, covers blocked in blind with decorative holly and ivy border, upper cover and spine gilt with author and title within holly wreath, green-coated endpapers, all edges gilt; spine and inner hinges skillfully renewed with original backstrip laid down, binding with some wear and fading, endpapers rubbed. quarter green morocco clamshell case, spine gilt in 6 compartments. 12mo (6 5/8 x 4 in.; 167 x 102 mm). Title-page printed in red and blue with wood-engraved holly vignette, half-title printed in blue, handcolored etched frontispiece and 3 handcolored etched plates after and by John Leech, 4 wood-engraved text illustrations after Leech by J. W. Linton, terminal leaf of publisher's ads ("Works of Mr. Charles Dickens"); half-title lightly browned, occasional minor soiling. Publisher's cinammon-brown rib-grained cloth, covers blocked in blind with decorative holly and ivy border, upper cover and spine gilt with author and title within holly wreath, green-coated endpapers, all edges gilt; spine and inner hinges skillfully renewed with original backstrip laid down, binding with some wear and fading, endpapers rubbed. quarter green morocco clamshell case, spine gilt in 6 compartments.
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Lot Note
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Smith, Dickens in the Original Cloth 2:4; Todd, "A Christmas Carol," in The Book Collector 10:449–54 CATALOGUE NOTE Presentation copy, inscribed by Dickens in the month of publication, "Mrs. George Hogg from Charles Dickens. Christmas 1843." First edition, mixed state.
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