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London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. N.d.. 12mo. A volume in The Popular Edition of the Complete Works. xii, 410 pp. Green cloth with blind stamped initials to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt, though dulled. Illustrated endpapers, title page and frontis. Minor rubbing and bumping to extremities. Very occasional light foxing. . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. 1915.

Paris: Baudry's European Library 1842. 8vo. First continental edition. viii, 320 pp. Contemporary quarter leather over marbled boards. Gilt decoration & lettering to spine. Rubbing to spine ends & corners. Slight spotting internally. Binding firm. From the 'Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors, Vol. CCCLXXXIII.' . Very Good. 1/4 Leather. 1842.

London: Chapman and Hall circa 1860s. 8vo. [iv], 172 pp. Half morocco over marbled boards; all edges marbled; gilt lettering and devices to spine. Light rubbing and bumping to extremities. Scattered foxing throughout. With eight black and white illustrated plates. Dickens' American journey inspired Martin Chuzzlewit. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1860.

London: Chapman and Hall, (Circa 1870s). Large 8vo.Illustrated. x, 322 pp., Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and lettering and decoration to front cover. Some wear to the edges of the boards and chipping to the spine. Slight wear to the front hinge with webbing visible. Bookplate to front pastedown and minor foxing throughout. Illustrated with 46 illustrations in black and white by F. Barnard. The Works of Charles Dickens Household Edition. . Good. Gilt Decorated Cloth. 1870.

Paris: Baudry's European Library 1842. 8vo. 2 vols, vi, 316, 314 pp., Issued a year after the seperate UK edition. Bound in a pleasent gilt decorated half vellum with brown marbled boards. Vellum darkened, boards rubbed. Pen ownership sigs on title pages, major red staining to rear pastedown of one vol. Edges rubbed with losses. . Very Good. Half Vellum. 1842.

London: Chapman and Hall 1870. 8vo. The 'Charles Dickens Edition'. vii, 540 pp. 8 black and white plates including frontis. Original publisher's cloth with bevelled edges and Dickens' signature in gilt to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Spotting to edges, affecting edges of some leaves throughout. The Works of Charles Dickens in Eighteen Volumes. Vol. X. . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. 1870.

London: Chapman & Hall, Ld. 1892. 8vo.Illustrated. x, 705 pp., Brown half calf with marbled boards, with red & black title labels and raised bands. Slight marks to the spine and wear to the edges of the boards. Binding firm with some scattered spotting. Illustrated with 40 black and white illustrations, including an illustrated title page. . Very Good. Half Calf. 1892.

London: Chapman and Hall, Limited N.d. [circa. 1890's]. 8vo.Illustrated. xvi, 624 pp., Half green morocco over cloth. Gilt details and lettering to spine, with all edges gilt. Some sunning to the spine and slight wear to the edges. Binding firm. Slight scattered spotting particularly to the extremities. Small repair to the leaves of p.1-4. Illustrated throughout in black and white with classic Phiz illustrations. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1890.

London: Bradbury and Evans 1853. 8vo.Illustrated. xvi, 624 pp., First edition, first issue (Bound from the parts). With all three typographical points present. Recently bound in half black morroco over marbled boards with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Endpapers marbled. Illustrated H. K. Browne by with 39 plates including an extra engraved title page with vignette, plates complete. Small tear to the top edges of p.41-47. Foxing to plates. . Very Good. Half Morocco. First Edition, First Issue. 1853.

London: Chatto & Windus 1913. 8vo. x., 83 pp. Cloth Binding with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, others uncut. Fly-leaves browned. Edited with a preface and illustrative notes by Theodore Watts-Dunton. . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. First Edition. 1913.

London: Hutchinson & Co. 1891. Large 8vo. No. 186 of 300 copies in this De Luxe edition, including a scarce pamphlet by Langton 'Charles Dickens and Rochester' published in Manchester in 1880. Brown morocco with gilt panelling, raised bands and gilt lettering. A very handsome book with gilt dentelles to inner edges, clean boards and neat exterior. Marbled endpapers with bookplate to paste-down. Uncut, laid paper, with the light occasional mark but generally internally clean. Includes many pasted illustrations on India paper. An attractive and well preserved copy. . Near Fine. Full Morocco. De Luxe Limited. 1891.

London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd. 1899. 16mo. [ix], 155 pp. Half green calf over marbled boards with raised bands, gilt lettering and devices to spine; marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine slightly darkened and a little wear to bottom of front joint and around edges. Ink inscription to ffep. dated 1909, otherwise internally clean. A very nice little copy with a colour illustrated frontispiece and title page. The second of Dickens' 'Christmas books' after 'A Christmas Carol'. . Very Good. Half Calf. 1899.

London: Chapman and Hall 1870. 8vo.Illustrated. 256 pp. Full green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and front cove . With 8 black and white plates. Rubbing to the spine and edges and foxing to the extremities of leaves. Vol IX from an 18 volume set of the works of Charles Dickens. Includes 'A Christmas Carol'. . Near Fine. Gilt Lettered Cloth. 1870.

New York: The Macmillan Company 1943. Small 8vo. 166 pp. Red hardback with an illustrated front board and spine. Small loss to top spine end and light wear to extremities, as usual. Clean and bright internally. Inscription to FFEP. Colour frontispiece illustration of Scrooge and 15 detailed, hand-drawn illustrations by Francis D. Bedford throughout. A very nice, giftable copy. F. D. Bedford . Very Good. Hardcover. 1943.

London: The Reprint Society 1949. 12mo. bound in 6's. 117 pp. Green hardback with gilt lettering to spine and red leather title label. Top edge stained red. Colour illustrated jacket. A few small tears and light rubbing to edges of jacket. Clean boards. Light spots to endpapers and fore-edge, but otherwise internally clean. Original colour plate illustrations and black-and-white woodcuts by John Leech. A nice little copy. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1949.

London: Chapman and Hall, Limited n. d.. Small 4to. [vi], 200 pp. Green cloth with unique detailed silver illustrations for each story on the front board and silver lettering to spine. Book has clearly gotten quite wet at some point: the boards are warped with some marks and water damage, and occasional large water stains internally. This has not affected the text, however, and otherwise it is reasonably clean. Black & white illustrations by F. Barnard. An unusual and attractive binding. . Good. Silver-decorated Cloth.

London: A. & F. Pears [c. 1912]. 8vo. 140 [2 ads] pp. Olive hardback with debossed detailing and gold lettering to front board. Slight wear to joints and extremeties, some paint marks to back cover. Some foxing to endpapers and very occasional marks inside but mostly bright and clean inside. Illustrated titlepage and frontispiece and 20 other black-and-white illustrations from original drawings by L. Rossi. Part of the Pears' Centernary Edition of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books. Rossi, L. . Good. Decorated Boards. 1912.

London: Chapman and Hall Limited N. D.. Large 8vo. xiv, 624 pp. Half Morocco and marbled boards. Gilt lettering and decoration to the spine. Raised bands. Rubbing and light bumping to extremities. Marbled edges and endpapers. Light foxing to prelims and regular light foxing along fore-edge of leaves. Ink inscription to ffep. Includes 38 black and white plates by Browne (all complete). A nice binding. 0192545027 . Good. Half Morocco.

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson. 8vo. N.d. [c. 1860's]. 223 pp. Embossed cloth with decorative gilt to spine. Chipped at head & tail of spine with some loss of cloth. Repaired tear on spine also. Frontis portrait engraving. Binding tight. . Good. Publisher's Cloth.

London: Chapman and Hall, Limited 1890. 8vo.Illustrated. viii, 704 pp., Brown half calf with marbled boards, with red & black title labels and raised bands. Some marks to the boards and minor wear to the edges. Binding firm. Some spotting to the fore-edge and extremities. Illustrated with 40 black and white illustrations, including frontis piece by Phiz. . Very Good. Half Calf. 1890.