The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year out and a New Year In by Dickens, Charles - 1845

London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. First Edition, First State of Dicken's Second Christmas Book. Engraved title in first state, colon after London on t.p. and p. 39 so numbered. Vignette title, frontispiece and illustrations after Richard Doyle, John Leech, Clarkson Stanfield and Daniel Maclise, engraved by F. P. Becker, Groves, W. J. Linton, Gray, and the Dalziel Brothers. [A]4 B-M8. Pp. [i-viii], [1], 2-175, [176]. 1 vols. 12mo. Original red cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, a.e.g. Nice copy. Bookplate. Leech, John. First Edition, First State of Dicken's Second Christmas Book. Engraved title in first state, colon after London on t.p. and p. 39 so numbered. Vignette title, frontispiece and illustrations after Richard Doyle, John Leech, Clarkson Stanfield and Daniel Maclise, engraved by F. P. Becker, Groves, W. J. Linton, Gray, and the Dalziel Brothers. [A]4 B-M8. Pp. [i-viii], [1], 2-175, [176]. 1 vols. 12mo. Smith II, pp. 30-36; Eckel pp. 116-118