May 15, 2018 - Sale 2478
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Sale 2478 - Lot 117

Price Realized: $ 9,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
DICKENS, CHARLES. [Christmas Books.] Together, 5 volumes. 8vo, uniformly bound in full teal levant morocco by Root & Son, triple gilt fillet covers, holly leaf and berries central gilt device and cornerpieces with green and red morocco onlays, spines in six compartments similarly gilt decorated, gilt-titles in two, all edges and turn-ins gilt; occasional light to moderate foxing, faint offsetting to endpapers, penciled ownership inscription to first blanks, original gilt- and blind-stamped decorative cloth covers and spines bound in at the end of each volume. London, 1843-48
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a complete set in fine bindings of the first editions of the books that have ensured Dickens's enduring association with the Christmas season. Comprising: A Christmas Carol. 1843. 2-page publisher's advertisement at end. Hand-colored etched frontispiece and three plates by John Leech, four wood engravings in the text by W.J. Linton. Half-title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, verso printed in blue, and "Stave I" on first text page, and green endpapers (mottled) bound in. The Chimes: A Goblin Story. 1845. Half-title. Etched frontispiece and additional title, woodcut illustrations. Second state of the additional title. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. 1846. Half-title. Etched frontispiece and additional title, woodcut illustrations. With the Oliver Twist advertisement leaf at end; catalogue description tipped to endleaf The Battle of Life. A Love Story. 1846. Half-title. Etched frontispiece and additional title, woodcut illustrations. Fourth state of the additional title, with cupid added to the scroll but without publisher's imprint. The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. 1848. 2 pages adverts at front. Etched frontispiece and additional title on toned grounds by Martin & Corbould after John Tenniel, woodcut illustrations. Eckel 110-125; Smith II 4-9.