[Rarebooks] FS: True First Edition of Charles Dickens's A CHRISTMAS CAROL in a superb Bayntun-Riviere Cosway-style binding with a watercolor portrait of Dickens

[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. Two tiny pinholes, one at the bottom of the front joint 
and the other at the bottom of the rear joint. Fine, sumptuous copy with 
superb Dickens portrait, in slipcase.         $30,000.00

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