Description
Christmas Books: A Christmas carol, 1843. Third edition; The chimes, 1845. Second edition; The battle of life, 1846. First edition, engraved title-page shows publisher's imprint and angel behind the scroll; The cricket on the hearth, 1846. Ninth edition; The haunted man, 1848... First edition; uniformly bound in red calf gilt, neat ownership inscriptions, a little darkening to pages, some fading; [Idem] A Christmas carol. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1962. 13th impression illustrated by Arthur Rackham, red morocco gilt by Bayntun with blue and green labels and tooling to spine, gilt holly motif to upper cover, floral gilt doublures, hinges worn, some damage to endpapers (6)