Charles Dickens — Christmas Books

London, Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, c1950. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this illustrated collection of Christmas Books from English writer Charles Dickens. Illustrated with sixty-five images, thirteen of which are on plates. Collated complete. Dickens' charming collection of Christmas stories, being: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. Written by Charles John Huffam Dickens, an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic who created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. With illustrations from Landseer, Maclise, Leech, Tenniel, Stanfield, and more. Bound in full faux crushed morocco. Externally, smart with minor rubbing and light fading to the extremities. Minor loss to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .