A Christmas Carol

RACKHAM, Arthur / DICKENS, Charles

RACKHAM, Arthur A Christmas Carol

Heinemann, 1915.

First edition illustrated by Rackham. 8vo. Publisher's deluxe binding of brown morocco over boards, lettered and decorated gilt to the spine and upper cover. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers, tipped in frontispiece and eleven full page colour plates under captioned tissue guards, chapter headings, tail pieces and numerous line drawings in the text. A very good copy with some wear to the head of the spine and corners, spots of foxing to the endpapers.

Rackham's illustrations for A Christmas Carol were "decidedly successful, for he contrived to adapt the tradition of 'Phiz' and Cruikshank to his own characteristic style in the pictures of Victorian London and at the same time found scope for his fantasy in the ghost scenes. We also find him here developing his special talent for silhouette, rare among illustrators" [Hudson, p106]. The 1915 Bookman review described this as "a beautiful and ideal edition of the ideal Christmas story"

Hudson p106.

Stock ID: 46450

£950.00

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