Beschreibung:

DICKENS, CHARLES. [Christmas Books]. A Christmas Carol, Chapman & Hall 1843, very slight wear to extremities of binding , title-page printed in red and blue, "Stave I" on first text page, yellow endpapers, 4 hand-colored etchings and 4 text woodcuts, with an autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens Tavistock House, 20 November 1856, to Mr. Becker [the illustrator?], 8vo , a seven-line note in the third person, folded and tipped in at front, torn ; The Chimes, Chapman and Hall 1845, extremities slightly dulled , frontispiece and vignette title by Maclise, the publishers' names incorporated into the vignette title design, woodcut text illustrations, with an autograph letter signed by Richard Doyle 18 November, n.y., 8vo , two lines to an unnamed correspondent referring to a mistaken delivery of books, folded and tipped in at front ; The Cricket on the Hearth, Bradbury and Evans 1846, gluestain on upper pastedown , first state of Oliver Twist advertisement, woodcut text illustrations, with a fragment of an autograph manuscript by Lord Jeffery, the dedicatee, n.p. or d., 2pp. 4to, stained and with two holes, folded and tipped in at front ; The Battle of Life, Bradbury & Evans 1846, inner joints tender , second issue with "A Love Story" within a banner and the "d" in "Bradbury" broken on the vignette title-page, woodcut text illustrations, with an autograph letter signed by John Leech London, 9 November 1843, to Henry Vizetelly, 2 1/2 pp., 8vo, folded and tipped in at front ; The Haunted Man, Bradbury & Evans 1848, inner joints cracked, covers slightly discolored , woodcut text illustrations, with an autograph letter signed by John Tenniel, London, 30 September 1880, to Alexander Macmillan, 2 1/2 pp. 8vo , refusing to execute a commission ("I had so much trouble getting rid of the fetters of 'book illustration') and recommending W. Small, folded and pasted down at front, fold tears; all London, together 5 vols., 12mo, original red cloth (the first in plum cloth), blind- and gilt-stamped, g.e., occasional foxing and slight soiling, each in later chemise, together in a red morocco gilt pull-off case , FIRST EDITIONS, issues as noted, illustrations after Daniel Maclise Richard Doyle Clarkson Stanfield Edwin Landseer and John Tenniel by a variety of engravers. Smith 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. An appealing collected set with association autographs. (5)