A CHRISTMAS CAROL BY CHARLES DICKENS 1886

[DICKENS, CHARLES]. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman and Hall, 1886.

NEW EDITION ('The Original Edition of A Christmas Carol has been out of print from many years, and this Edition is a reprint from the stereotype plates of that Edition'). Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (17.5 x 11 x 1.5 cm); pp. 166. English text. Publisher's original red cloth over limp boards with gilt titles and holly wreath decoration to spine and front cover; advertisements to endpapers; half-title; illustrations by John Leech including a frontispiece. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the joints and hinges intact. Covers largely clean with light fading to spine. Contents complete and well-preserved, a touch of spotting to endpapers and fore edge, and without previous ownership markings. A handsome copy.