A Christmas carol / by Charles Dickens ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Category
Books
Date
1915
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085765
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 147, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 4to. Copy no. 147, signed by Arthur Rackham. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco over boards; inlaid pictorial centrepiece in coloured morocco; gilt and inlaid fillets to form a border, central panel and panelled spine; five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled) with title and author; single gilt fillet on board edges; double and single gilt fillets on turn-ins; red silk endpapers. Binder’s gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf'. In red morocco box.
Makers and roles
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), author Arthur Rackham (Lewisham 1867 – Limpsfield 1939), illustrator