Author: (THACKERAY. WILLIAM. M); writing as M. A. Titmarsh.
Title: DOCTOR BIRCH. And his young friends.
Description: Chapman and Hall. London. 1849. FIRST EDITION. First issue. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.5 inches). Illustrated with 16 fine hand coloured plates, engraved on wood after drawings by the author. Finely bound by Riviere & Son in full dark green morocco. Spine with raised bands, ruled in gilt. The compartments fully decorated and lettered in gilt. Triple ruled gilt borders on boards. Board edges with double gilt ruled lines. Decorative gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Original illustrated paper boards bound in at rear. A few marks to the edges of several of the pages but overall still a near fine and beautiful copy of this first issue, with the plates hand coloured, of the third of Thackeray's Christmas books.

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