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London: Chapman and Hall/Bradbury & Evans, 1845-1848. First editions of the four final novellas in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Book series. Octavo, 4 volumes bound in full crushed burgundy morocco by Bayntun Riviere with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. The set contains: a first edition of The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year. [London: Chapman and Hall, 1845] [1844] with the publisher's advertisement for A Christmas Carol; half-title; 13 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title by Maclise, Doyle, Leech and Stanfield; second state of the vignette title. First edition of The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. [London: Bradbury and Evans for the author, 1846] [1845] with the half-title; 14 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title by Leech,…

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, a Christmas novella by Charles Dickens, was published in 1848. It follows the story of Professor Redlaw who is haunted by a ghost that offers to erase his memories of sorrow and grief.