Dickens, Charles Christmas Stories. Birdsall & Sons [Northampton]. Circa 1908. Complete five volume set on original oak book display.

Dickens, Charles Christmas Stories. Birdsall & Sons [Northampton]. Circa 1908. Complete five volume set on original oak book display shelf, marked "W.Lockwood & Co. Ltd. 67, Duke St. Grosvenor Square. W." Printed by R. Clay & Sons, London and Bungay. Possibly using original sheets from the Siegle Hill, Langham Booklets series that have the same number of pages and is the same size; but has individual title pages with Birdsall imprints and in different fonts than the rest of the works. A Christmas Carol, 254 pages, a ghost story; The Chimes, 248 pages;
The Cricket on the Hearth, 222 pages; The Battle of Life, 248 pages. Grey marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Stamped with Lockwood & Son at the foot of each paste-down endpaper. 62 x 90 mm. Emerald green full morocco Art Nouveau bindings. Gilt floral motifs on covers and spines (slightly worn at head of spines and a trifle rubbed and faded in places). Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann. See Welsh, 2352, 2356, 2361, 2366, 2369 for Siegle Hill imprints. WorldCat locates no copies of this Birdsall imprint worldwide. 40 firsts2024