1903 A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens & Other Stories by Different Authors / Charming Antique Victorian Christmas Book of Short Stories

Here is a charming antique pocket-sized copy of A Christmas Tree and Other Stories. Being a reprint of Charles Dickens' Christmas Numbers of Household Words, originally published in 1850. This later edition by Chapman & Hall is undated but following research I believe it to be from 1903.

Charles Dickens' Christmas Numbers for Household Words were special seasonal editions of his popular weekly magazine, Household Words, which he published between 1850 and 1859. These Christmas Numbers became a hallmark of Victorian Christmas celebrations and contributed to the evolving literary traditions around the holiday season. They featured serialized stories, novellas, poems, and articles, often with a festive or moral theme suitable for family reading during Christmas.

While Dickens was the driving force behind these editions, he often worked with a group of writers, including Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Procter, and others.

Each Christmas Number had a thematic unity, with interconnected stories written by various authors. Often, these themes revolved around communal or family gatherings, reflecting the social aspect of Victorian Christmas celebrations. The stories would range from ghost tales to heart-warming narratives, with Dickens contributing one or more stories, typically the lead or framing story.

This copy has a collection of short Christmas stories by ten different authors. Including A Christmas Pudding and Christmas in the Frozen Regions amongst them.

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 marks to the boards but minor. The spine has tanned a good deal 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 A Christmas Tree 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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