Dickens at Christmas
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). Charles DICKENS (author). The Chimes. New York: The Limited Editions Club. 1931.
Royal 8vo. Original tan pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, blocked in black and gilt, top edges gilt, pictorial endpapers, pictorial card slipcase; pp. [xxxvi] + 128; with pictorial title-page, frontispiece and chapter-headings decorated in sepia and including 20 fine line illustrations (including 6 full-page) and text decorations throughout, printed on Japanese vellum; a very good copy with the usual heavy darkening to spine cloth and a minor vertical strip of sun-lightening to boards adjacent to joints, internally fine, without ownership inscription or label; the slipcase with marking, some dust-soiling, and reglued split at one edge.
First edition illustrated thus, limited to only 1500 numbered copies, signed by Rackham.
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