Description
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, printed in 1844, seventh edition.
Twelvemo, [6], 166pp, [2]. Three quarter red morocco, title in gilt on spine, decorative raised bands. Bound by Bayntun Binder, Bath, England. Marbled endpapers, all gilt edges. Bookplate and commemorative stamp on front endpapers. Complete with three hand-colored illustrations, frontispiece portrait and 4 woodcuts by John Leech. Half-title in full blue, title page in red and blue, Stave I as title to Chapter I. (Smith II, 4a) (Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 39, Fourth Quarter, 1945) (Eckel pp. 110-115) An exceptionally bright copy.
