A Christmas Carol
Heinemann, 1915.
First Rackham edition. 8vo. Original purple cloth with titles and decoration in gilt. Top edge black. Pictorial endpapers, twelve full page colour plates and various line drawings in the text. A very good copy indeed, spine gilt tarnished, internally occasional marks.
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"
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