The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

Complete first edition set of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books. Octavo, 5 volumes, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panels, all edges gilt, frontispiece, title page vignettes. A Christmas Carol is a first printing with 4 hand-colored plates, red and blue title page, 'Stave 1' and uncorrected text, chalky green endpapers [1843]; The Chimes: A Goblin Story is a second printing with the advertisement leaf for the above edition of A Christmas Carol, second state of vignette title-page [1845]; The Cricket on the Hearth is a second printing with second state of advertisement leaf [1846]; The Battle of Life is a fourth printing with vignette title-page in fourth state without imprint (Todd's E1) [1846]; The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain with p.161 numeral intact [1848]. In very good condition uniform shelf wear and soiling. Ownership inscriptions on the front free endpaper of each volume except for The Chimes. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very nice example.