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CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
Lot 108

DICKENS (CHARLES)
[Christmas Books] A Christmas Carol, 8vo (5)

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

[Christmas Books] A Christmas Carol, eleventh edition, plates hand-coloured, spine repaired ("Morrell, Dec 1937"), 1845; The Chimes; A Goblin Story, sixth edition, recased, 1845, Chapman & Hall; The Cricket on the Hearth, FIRST EDITION, second state of advertisement leaf, spine repaired and new endpapers, 1846; The Battle of Life, FIRST EDITION, vignette title-page in fourth state without imprint (Todd's E1), spine ends fraying, front hinge split, 1846; The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, FIRST EDITION, 1848, Bradbury & Evans, together 5 vol., wood-engraved frontispieces, all but the first with additional vignette titles, illustrations, publisher's red cloth with gilt illustration or device on upper cover, gilt-lettered and decorated spines, g.e., spines bumped, 2 darkened [Smith II: 4, 5, 6, 8, 9], 8vo (5)

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Provenance: A Christmas Carol, Thomas Hatton, Collis's purchase note dated 11 November 1937; The Cricket on the Hearth, "Miss Mattthews", signature on verso of frontispiece; The Battle of Life, "Cost 15/6 1/11/30 Holland", Collis's pencil note; The Haunted Man, "For the Kestrel from the old Hawk. Jan 3 1849", inscription on front free endpaper; "4.11.1930... From Holland Bros, B'ham", Collis's purchase note.

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