A Christmas Carol

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The deluxe edition & one of 525 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. In the publishers original gilt-stamped pictorial vellum, a few faint surface soils to upper cover, lacking the cloth ties. Spine, gilt titles & illustrations. Internally, illustrated endpapers, limitation leaf with Rackham signature, half title, coloured frontis, title with coloured illustration, [8], (ix-xv), [1], [2], 3-147 pp, (1), 12 coloured plates, by Arthur Rackham, mounted on brown paper, all with captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, 20 B&W illustrations within text, t.e.g., others uncut, pencil ownership inscription to fep (Townsend), occasional very faint edge browning but an excellent example of a title rarely found in as good a condition. (291*230 mm, 4to) (Riall p124. Latimore/Haskell p44) Through the intervention of four ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the spirit of Christmas! This the 1915 Arthur Rackham edition of A Christmas Carol presents Charles Dickens's classic Christmas novella accompanied by richly atmospheric illustrations. The book contains the complete text of Dickens's story, first published in 1843, alongside Rackham's distinctive pen and ink drawings and colour plates, which reinterpret the tale with dramatic, often eerie visual intensity