Author: Dickens, Charles & Leech, John - MacLise, D - Stone, Marcus [illustrators]
Title: Christmas Books [with] Pictures From Italy - American Notes
Description: Waverley Book Company, nd c 1912, reprint. Red cloth gilt, F. xii+412+xii+437pp, b/w frontis, 24 b/w plates, fore edges a little foxed, otherwise a fine copy in bright cloth. A facsimile of the 'Author's Favourite Edition' originally published by Chapman & Hall. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ On the verso of the half title it states : This is an exact facsimilie in every detail of text and illustration, excepting on the title pages, of the last edition of his works published under the eye of Charles Dickens, and described by him as 'this is the best edition of my books.' The Style of Binding being also copied from the original. Probably Dickens' most famous work ( A Christmas Carol ), along with two works of travel writing.

Keywords: Literature, history, fiction