[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of Dickens's A CHRISTMAS CAROL in Cosway-style binding

[Charles Agvent]

DICKENS,  Charles.  A  CHRISTMAS   CAROL  in  superb  COSWAY-STYLE
BINDING.    London:  Chapman  &  Hall   1843.  First  Edition.   Bound
Cosway-style  by  Bayntun-Riviere in full red crushed  levant  morocco
with  five  raised  bands,  spine and covers  elaborately  tooled  and
lettered  in gilt with the front cover set with a large oval miniature
painting  of  Dickens under glass, gilt dentelles, silk doublures  and
endpapers,  all  edges gilt. Small octavo, 4" x 6-1/2"; [8], 166,  [2,
ads]  pages with the original cloth covers bound in at the rear. First
edition,    first  issue:  "Stave   I";  text  entirely   uncorrected;
green-coated  endpapers;  blue  half-title page; red  and  blue  title
page.  Four hand-colored steel-engraved plates by and after Leech  and
four  wood-engraved  text illustrations by W. J. Linton  after  Leech.
Two  tiny pinholes, one at the bottom of the front joint and the other
at the bottom of the rear joint. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Fine,
sumptuous copy with Dickens portrait, in slipcase.          $30,000.00

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