'Pears' Edition of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books.
[Comprising] A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Haunted Man; The Battle of Life; The Cricket on the Hearth.
Stock Code 113846
London, A. & F Pears Ltd, [1912]
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A complete set of this delightful edition of Dickens' Christmas classics, published by the world renowned soap manufacturer.
First editions thus; 5 vols, 4to (210 x 160 mm); with an Introduction to each by Clement Shorter, the first four titles each illustrated with 30 illustrations by Charles Green, the last with 22 by L. Rossi,spotting and browning to title-pages (different paper from the text leaves), internally fine; publisher's cloth covered boards in red, blue, dark green, tan and light green, uniform panelling in black to each upper cover, with fielded cameo of 'Bubbles', the Pears' soap boy, gilt lettering, to spines as well, Heraldic pastedowns front and rear, repeated collection title to upper free endpapers, these lightly spotted (as usual), unlike the text blocks, which are of superior clay paper, spines and corners lightly bumped, fading and darkening to spines, otherwise very good and still very bright; 139, [1]; 147, [1]; 160; 144; 140 pp.
First editions thus; 5 vols, 4to (210 x 160 mm); with an Introduction to each by Clement Shorter, the first four titles each illustrated with 30 illustrations by Charles Green, the last with 22 by L. Rossi,spotting and browning to title-pages (different paper from the text leaves), internally fine; publisher's cloth covered boards in red, blue, dark green, tan and light green, uniform panelling in black to each upper cover, with fielded cameo of 'Bubbles', the Pears' soap boy, gilt lettering, to spines as well, Heraldic pastedowns front and rear, repeated collection title to upper free endpapers, these lightly spotted (as usual), unlike the text blocks, which are of superior clay paper, spines and corners lightly bumped, fading and darkening to spines, otherwise very good and still very bright; 139, [1]; 147, [1]; 160; 144; 140 pp.
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