DICKENS' A CHRISTMAS CAROL, ILLUSTRATED BY A.C. MICHAEL
(MICHAEL, A.C.) DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London, New York, Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1911. Quarto, original navy pictorial cloth gilt, original dust jacket with circular cut-out on front panel.
Illustrated gift edition of Dickens' Christmas classic, with eight tipped-in color plates and six full-page black-and-white line illustrations by A.C. Michael.
Dickens' A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843 and "may readily be called the Bible of Christmas" (Eckel, 110); many illustrators have embellished this timeless tale over the years. This lovely gift book features a mounted illustration on the front cover, which shows through a circular cut-out in the scarce original dust jacket. Prize bookplate.
Book near-fine, cloth clean, gilt bright; dust jacket with some creasing, repaired on verso of front panel near cut-out and at foot of spine, minor rubbing and creasing, very good. A lovely and uncommon illustrated gift edition of Dickens' Christmas classic.