Dickens, The Chimes, 1845, first edition

DICKENS, CHARLES

The Chimes: A Goblin Story. London: Chapman and Hall, 1845 [1844]

8vo (166 x 104mm.), first edition, 13 illustrations (including frontispiece and vignette title) by Maclise, Doyle, Leech and Stanfield, second state of the vignette title, advertisement for tenth edition of A Christmas Carol at the beginning, pale yellow endpapers, original deep red vertically-ribbed cloth, uppers decorated in blind, upper cover pictorially gilt with design of seven goblins above six chimes, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, preserved in matching cloth folding box

A FINE FINE COPY OF DICKENS' SECOND "CHRISTMAS" BOOK.

REFERENCE:

Smith II:5

PROVENANCE:

Victor B. Levit, book-label