Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection

Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection

Dickens, The Haunted Man, 1848, first edition

Auction Closed

September 24, 03:31 PM GMT

Estimate

700 - 1,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

DICKENS, CHARLES

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848


8vo (165 x 103mm.), first edition, advertisement leaf at the beginning, 17 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title (by Leech, Stanfield, Tenniel and Stone, original deep red vertically-ribbed cloth decorated in blind, upper cover with gold Christmas wreath enclosing gilt lettering, spine lettered and decoratd in gilt, pale yellow-coated endpapers, all edges gilt, preserved in red cloth case and quarter red morocco slipcase


A FINE COPY OF DICKENS'S FINAL"CHRISTMAS" NOVEL, published on 19 December 1848.