Antique Charles Dickens – Christmas Books – Victorian Illustrated – Chapman & Hall
Genuine 19th-century collected edition of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Books, published in London by Chapman & Hall and printed by Richard Clay & Sons, Bread Street Hill.
Contains all five of Dickens’ classic Christmas stories:
A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man.
Includes all original Victorian steel-engraved illustrations, confirmed by the original List of Illustrations page, including the famous “Mr. Fezziwig’s Ball” frontispiece.
Bound in the original Victorian marbled boards with cloth spine, dating from approximately the 1880s–1890s.
This is a genuine antique book and shows expected age-related wear:
• Covers and spine worn
• Binding loose
• Page edges worn with some small tears
• Light foxing and toning
All pages and illustrations are present.