Christmas Books. DICKENS (Charles).

Frontispiece by John Leech. Printed in double columns.

First authorised collected edition, with a new preface by Dickens. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full scarlet morocco, the covers tooled in gilt with a double fillet border and broken panel with a sprig of mistletoe blocked in the corners and large holy sprig at the centre, with dots, the spine divided into six panels with raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third and dated at the foot, the others with centres and corners, the turn-ins tooled with gilt single and double fillets, marbled end-leaves, gilt edges.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1852.

Stock no. 4060