Dickens, Charles.

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. Chapman and Hall, 1843, new edition, title-page printed in red and blue with wood-engraved holly vignette, half-title printed in blue, hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 3 hand-coloured etched plates after and by John Leech, 4 wood-engraved text illustrations by W.J. Linton after Leech, integral final leaf of publisher's advertisements, publisher's brown cloth wrappers and spine bound in at the end, "new edition" on title page erased by bookseller or collector at some point, repair to frontispiece at inner margin, short tear to same leaf at outer margin
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Chapman and Hall, 1845, first edition, additional pictorial wood-engraved title-page (second state) and frontispiece after Daniel Maclise by F. P. Becker, 11 wood-engraved text vignettes after Leech, Richard Doyle and Clarkson Stanfield, integral preliminary advertisement leaf for the tenth edition of A Christmas Carol, publisher's red cloth wrappers bound in at the end (slightly damaged)



The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. For the author by Bradbury and Evans, 1846, first edition,  additional wood-engraved title-page and frontispiece after Maclise, 12 wood-engraved text vignettes after Leech, Doyle et al, integral final advertisement leaf for new edition of Oliver Twist (second state), publisher's red cloth wrappers bound in at the end



The Battle of Life. A Love Story. Bradbury and Evans, 1846, first edition, additional pictorial wood-engraved title-page (fourth state) and frontispiece after Maclise, 11 wood-engraved text vignettes after Leech, Doyle and Maclise, final advertisement leaf for Dombey and Son, publisher's red cloth wrappers bound in at the end,



The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. Bradbury and Evans, 1848, first edition, additional pictorial wood-engraved title-page and frontispiece after John Tenniel by Martin and Corbould, 15 wood-engraved text vignettes after Tenniel, Clarkson Stanfield et al, integral preliminary advertisement leaf for "Works by Mr. Dickens", publisher's red cloth wrappers bound in at the end



8vo, 5 volumes, red crushed morocco gilt by Baytun's for Sotheran's, spines in six compartments, decorated endpapers, all edges gilt, preserved in matching red cloth slipcase

Smith II:4, 5, 6, 8, 9; Eckel pp.110, 116, 119, 121, 124

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A Christmas Carol appears to have most of the "corrected text" issue points listed by Calhoun and Heaney, present from the second edition onwards (Dickens' Christmas Carol After a Hundred Years: A Study in Bibliographical Evidence, 1945).