1903 The Holly-Tree Inn by Charles Dickens / Charming Victorian Christmas Novella / Pocket-Sized Antique Book / Chapman & Hall, London

Here is a charming antique pocket-sized copy of The Holly-Tree Inn by Charles Dickens. Originally published in 1855, this edition by Chapman & Hall was published in 1903.

The Holly-Tree Inn originally appeared in Household Words, a weekly journal Dickens edited. The story is divided into several parts, each offering a different perspective, and like many of Dickens' works, it mixes humour, social observation, and sentimentality. It is a heart-warming, reflective novella that combines elements of humour, romance, and social observation in the signature Dickensian style.

With a colour frontispiece and title page, else unillustrated. The pages are clean and tightly bound with just some occasional spotting. This copy has not been written in and there are no other markings of previous ownership. The top closed edge is gilt. 

Delightfully bound in green cloth covered boards with dark green holly decoration, red berries and titles. With a few faint dark marks to the boards but minor. The spine has tanned in comparison to the front and back so that it is now hard to discern the title. With a little rubbing and rounding to the corners and spine ends.

Perfect as a stocking-filler. Your charming antique pocket-sized copy of The Holly-Tree Inn will be wrapped with care in tissue and ribbon* and sent well packaged. I am always happy to add a gift card with a message to the parcel if desired.

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PLEASE NOTE POCKET SIZED DIMENSIONS: H 15 cm x W 14 cm, 0.11 kg, 156 pages. I dispatch worldwide daily from the UK. (There are just a very few countries which I am unable to ship to).

* If you would prefer your book not to be decoratively wrapped but sent simply in the full protective packaging, please add a note to the order.

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