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(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, ties lacking, one laid inside; top edges trimmed and gilt, others uncut, endpapers with bookplate and some mild toning. London: Heinemann and Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1915)
first limited edition. number 387 of 525 copies signed by rackham and his first illustrated dickens. Heinemann's original single-sheet prospectus for the book is laid in, with the price hand-corrected to 7/6s. Latimore and Haskell 44-45; Riall 124-125.
