[Five Christmas books] Mrs Perkins's Ball; Our Street; Doctor Birch & His Young Friends; The Kickleburys on the Rhine; The Rose and the Ring

London: Chapman & Hall, [1847]-1855. Thackeray. 5 vols. Small 4to and 8vo. Uniform late 19th-century crushed green morocco, original glazed paper covers to each volume backed and bound-in, t.e.g., by Matthews; spines faded, light wear to extremities Mrs Perkins's Ball. London: Chapman and Hall, [1847]. Pictorial title and 21 plates (1 folding), all hand-colored, after Thackeray. [2], 46, [2] pp., with half-title. First edition. Our Street. London: Chapman and Hall, 1848. Frontispiece, pictorial title and 14 engraved plates, all hand-colored, after Thackeray. 54, [2] pp. First edition.Doctor Birch & His Young Friends. London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. Frontispiece, pictorial title and 14 engraved plates by Thackeray. [iv], 49, [1], [2, ads] pp. First edition, later issue with plates uncolored.The Kickleburys on the Rhine. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1851. Frontispiece, pictorial title and 13 engraved plates, all hand-colored, by Thackeray. [iv], xv, [1], 87, [1], [2, ads] pp., with half-title. Second edition.The Rose and the Ring; or, the History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1855. Frontispice, title-page vignette, 7 engraved plates, 48 woodcuts to text by Thackeray. [ii], 128, 16 (ads) pp. First edition.Attractive uniformly bound collection of the five canonical Thackeray Christmas stories with illustrations by the author. Does not include Rebecca and Rowena (1850) which Van Duzer notes is sometimes included as it was advertised as "A Story for Christmas" but did not include illustrations by Thackeray.REFERENCE: Van Duzer 140, 157, 51, 106, 185