DICKENS, Charles.

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A Christmas Carol in prose being A Ghost Story of Christmas. First Brock edition, in the publisher's deluxe vellum binding, and illustrated with Brock's exquisite colour plates.Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938) rose to prominence in 1898 after producing for J. M. Dent, in collaboration with his brother Henry Matthew Brock, the first colour-illustrated editions of the novels of Jane Austen. From 1905, Dent commissioned Charles Edmund Brock to illustrate their new editions of Dickens's Christmas books, since his "benign drawings would most accord with the words" (Houfe, p. 196).

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