DICKENS, CHARLES. [Christmas Books]. A Christmas Carol, Chapman & Hall 1843, very slight wear to extremities of binding, title-page printed in red and blue, "Stave I" on first text page, yellow endpapers, 4 hand-colored etchings and 4 text woodcuts, with an autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens, Tavistock House, 20 November 1856, to Mr. Becker [the illustrator?], 8vo, a seven-line note in the third person, folded and tipped in at front, torn; The Chimes, Chapman and Hall 1845, extremities slightly dulled, frontispiece and vignette title by Maclise, the publishers' names incorporated into the vignette title design, woodcut text illustrations, with an autograph letter signed by Richard Doyle, 18 November, n.y., 8vo, two lines to an unnamed correspondent referring to a mistaken delivery of books, folded and tipped in at front; The Cricket on the Hearth, Bradbury and Evans 1846, gluestain on upper pastedown, first state of Oliver Twist advertisement, woodcut text illustrations, with a fragment of an autograph manuscript by Lord Jeffery, the dedicatee, n.p. or d., 2pp. 4to, stained and with two holes, folded and tipped in at front; The Battle of Life, Bradbury & Evans 1846, inner joints tender, second issue with "A Love Story" within a banner and the "d" in "Bradbury" broken on the vignette title-page, woodcut text illustrations, with an autograph letter signed by John Leech, London, 9 November 1843, to Henry Vizetelly, 2 1/2 pp., 8vo, folded and tipped in at front; The Haunted Man, Bradbury & Evans 1848, inner joints cracked, covers slightly discolored, woodcut text illustrations, with an autograph letter signed by John Tenniel, London, 30 September 1880, to Alexander Macmillan, 2 1/2 pp. 8vo, refusing to execute a commission ("I had so much trouble getting rid of the fetters of 'book illustration') and recommending W. Small, folded and pasted down at front, fold tears; all London, together 5 vols., 12mo, original red cloth (the first in plum cloth), blind- and gilt-stamped, g.e., occasional foxing and slight soiling, each in later chemise, together in a red morocco gilt pull-off case, FIRST EDITIONS, issues as noted, illustrations after Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, Edwin Landseer and John Tenniel by a variety of engravers. Smith 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. An appealing collected set with association autographs. (5)

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DICKENS, CHARLES. [Christmas Books]. A Christmas Carol, Chapman & Hall 1843, very slight wear to extremities of binding, title-page printed in red and blue, "Stave I" on first text page, yellow endpapers, 4 hand-colored etchings and 4 text woodcuts, with an autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens, Tavistock House, 20 November 1856, to Mr. Becker [the illustrator?], 8vo, a seven-line note in the third person, folded and tipped in at front, torn; The Chimes, Chapman and Hall 1845, extremities slightly dulled, frontispiece and vignette title by Maclise, the publishers' names incorporated into the vignette title design, woodcut text illustrations, with an autograph letter signed by Richard Doyle, 18 November, n.y., 8vo, two lines to an unnamed correspondent referring to a mistaken delivery of books, folded and tipped in at front; The Cricket on the Hearth, Bradbury and Evans 1846, gluestain on upper pastedown, first state of Oliver Twist advertisement, woodcut text illustrations, with a fragment of an autograph manuscript by Lord Jeffery, the dedicatee, n.p. or d., 2pp. 4to, stained and with two holes, folded and tipped in at front; The Battle of Life, Bradbury & Evans 1846, inner joints tender, second issue with "A Love Story" within a banner and the "d" in "Bradbury" broken on the vignette title-page, woodcut text illustrations, with an autograph letter signed by John Leech, London, 9 November 1843, to Henry Vizetelly, 2 1/2 pp., 8vo, folded and tipped in at front; The Haunted Man, Bradbury & Evans 1848, inner joints cracked, covers slightly discolored, woodcut text illustrations, with an autograph letter signed by John Tenniel, London, 30 September 1880, to Alexander Macmillan, 2 1/2 pp. 8vo, refusing to execute a commission ("I had so much trouble getting rid of the fetters of 'book illustration') and recommending W. Small, folded and pasted down at front, fold tears; all London, together 5 vols., 12mo, original red cloth (the first in plum cloth), blind- and gilt-stamped, g.e., occasional foxing and slight soiling, each in later chemise, together in a red morocco gilt pull-off case, FIRST EDITIONS, issues as noted, illustrations after Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, Edwin Landseer and John Tenniel by a variety of engravers. Smith 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. An appealing collected set with association autographs. (5)