Antique Christmas Books Dickens Illustr. Chapman & Hall Goblin Ghost Fairy Tales

Antique 1869 leather-bound edition of “Christmas Books” by Charles Dickens. Embossed front cover with portrait of the author. Pages have a gilt top edge. There is an original sticker affixed to inside of back cover “From H. S. Nichols, Inc. Booksellers, 17 East 33rd Street, New York City”. Illustrated throughout with 65 illustrations by Landseer, Maclise, Leech, Tenniel, Stanfield, &c. Illustrated endpapers. London. Chapman & Hall, Limited; and Humphrey Milford, New York. Printed by Horace Hart, University Press, Oxford. “The Christmas Books — i. e., A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man (1848) — appeared first in a single volume in 1852. Another edition, with the original plates (both engravings and woodcuts) by the distinguished book and magazine illustrators Edwin Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech, and John Tenniel, appeared in 1869.” Condition is used. There is overall wear to front and back covers and spine including edge wear, rubbing with loss of surface material, soiling and fading. The spine has been amateurly repaired with clear cellophane tape. The front and back endpapers have some staining near top spine and are separating from the spine. Interior pages are in good condition. No writing in book and no offensive odor. Please zoom all photos for more details. 483 pages. Measures approximately 4-1/2” x 6-3/4 inches.