1891 Christmas Books Including A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - Illustrated Antique Book

In very good condition, here is a lovely antique version of Charles Dickens' five Christmas books plus the novel Hard Times. Published in 1891 by Chapman & Hall, London. Quite possibly un-read as a couple of the early pages remain uncut. With sixty-seven black and white illustrations. More details below.

The five Christmas Books are: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket and the Hearth; The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man.

Inside the pages are clean, bright and tightly bound. A couple of the early pages have never been cut open (see photos). They can be opened using the edge of a credit card, letter opener etc. Pencil inscription to an early blank endpaper dated 1902. Has some spotting to the outside edges. The frontispiece still have the original tissue-guard intact (slightly tanned).

Dark-red cloth backed boards have a gilt stamped crown in the centre of the front board, and gilt titles to the spine. The boards have kept a good deep-red colour with just a couple of very faint water marks to the top front edge - but these can mostly only be seen by holding the book right up to the light. The red of the spine has faded a bit in comparison to the front and back. The gilt titles remain bright.

A lovely, tight and square antique edition.

Your copy of The Christmas Books and Hard Times by Charles Dickens will be wrapped with care in tissue and ribbon* and sent well packaged. I am always happy to add a gift message to the parcel if desired.

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H 21.5 cm x W 15.5 cm, 566 pages, 0.79 kg. I dispatch worldwide daily from the UK. (There are just a very few countries which I am unable to ship to).

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