[DICKENS, CHARLES]. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1905.
First edition thus. Leather-bound; hardback; octavo (18cm x 12cm x 2.5cm); pp. viii, 158. English text, with 8 colour plates, plus b/w illustrations by C. E. Brock. Bound in Publisher's original deluxe full vellum, elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to front cover and spine, t.e.g., untrimmed fore edge and bottom edge, initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present, decorative title-page in red and black. Printed by Colston & Co. Limited, Edinburgh. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight, secure and square. Covers very clean. The interior very well-preserved with slight browning to endpapers. Without previous ownership markings. An excellent copy and scarce thus.
Notes: This is the publisher's wonderful deluxe version in full vellum gilt; with the first presentation of C. E. Brock's illustrations.
