Jun 17, 2021 - Sale 2573

Sale 2573 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
DICKENS, CHARLES. [4 Christmas books.] Together, 4 volumes. Small 8vo, uniformly bound in full red crushed morocco by Bayntun Riviere, covers paneled in gilt, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, all edges and turn ins gilt. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Publisher's advertisement for A Christmas Carol, half-title, 13 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Maclise, Doyle, Leech and Stanfield, second state of the vignette title. First edition. Chapman and Hall, 1845 [1844] * The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. Half-title, 14 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise and Landseer, 2 pp. advertisements at rear; one or two stray spots. First edition. Bradbury and Evans for the author, 1846 [1845] * The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Half-title, 13 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Maclise, Doyle, Leech and Stanfield, fourth state of the vignette title, 2pp. advertisements at rear; one or two stray spots. First edition, fourth state. Bradbury and Evans, 1846 * The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. Half-title, 7 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title by Leech, Stanfield, Tenniel and Stone; frontispiece detached by present, one or two stray spots. First edition. Bradbury and Evans, 1848. Each title with the original cloth bound in at end. London, vd