(RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. 12 tipped-in color plates by Rackham with lettered tissue guards; 20 black-and-white and silhouette illustrations throughout the text. Large 4to, publisher's gilt-pictorial vellum, slightly bowed, mild darkening along spine and 1/2-inch clean tear at foot of spine, ties lacking, one laid inside; top edges trimmed and gilt, others uncut, scattered foxing, heaviest to endpapers where there is also an early owner's discreet bookplate, ink owner's inscription on front blank. first limited edition. number 184 of 525 copies signed by rackham and his first illustration of a work by dickens. Latimore and Haskell 44-45; Riall 124-125. London and Philadelphia, (1915)