DICKENS, Charles.

£250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. First Brock edition, in the publisher's deluxe vellum binding. Dent commissioned Charles Brock to produce new illustrations in colour for their "Series of English Idylls", following Brock's success illustrating Jane Austen's works for Dent in collaboration with his brother Henry Brock in 1898.Originally published in 1848, this was Dickens's fifth and final Christmas book.

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