Marrin's Bookshop

Synopsis

Illustrated by ronald searle.

Item Description

8vo. 10 x 7.5 inches. 109 + [1] pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, in price clipped pictorial dust wrapper with sunned spine, neatly repaired. A little wear to extremities, including corners and head and tail of spine; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by black and white and colour plates, including frontispiece, numbered in text, and by text figures and vignettes, all by Searle. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Pictorial endpapers. The artist and satirical cartoonist, Ronald Searle (1920-2011) captures the full flavour of Dickens' classic Christmas ghost story, first published 1843.