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CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
Lot 109

DICKENS (CHARLES)
The Chimes: A Goblin Story, FIRST EDITION, Chapman & Hall, 1845 [1844]

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

The Chimes: A Goblin Story, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece and additional title (first state) after Maclise, wood-engraved illustrations by Doyle, Leech and Stanfield, advertisement for tenth edition of A Christmas Carol at beginning, publisher's red vertically-ribbed cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, g.e., spine slightly faded and worn at ends, front free endpaper loose [Smith II:5], 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1845 [1844]

Footnotes

First edition of the second Christmas Book published by Dickens.

Provenance: "Hector. 20s/- 8/8/1936", Collis's purchase note loosely inserted.

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