Dickens (Charles)

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas.

first edition, second issue ("Stave One"), second state with title page in red and blue, four hand-coloured engravings, recently bound by Bayntun in full red morocco, lettered in gilt, a.e.g., marbled endleaves, original cloth bound-in at end, paper repairs to gutters to initial pages [frontispiece, title-page, content, p.158 – p166, advert leaf, 8vo., 1843

***Signed envelope by Dickens to C. Roach Smith tipped-in to leaf before half-title. Charles Roach Smith was an antiquarian and amateur archaeologist, he also went on to be a founding member of the Archaeologists Society.