THE FACES IN THE FIRE; A Story for the Season, by Redgap by [Dickens, Charles] Pardon, George Frederick - 1849

London: Willoughby & Company, 1849. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Fair. T.H. Nicholson. 12mo, red decorative & gilt-stamped rib-grain cloth, hand-colored engraved frontispiece & comparable title-page plus 7 B&W wood-engravings, vignettes, and tailpieces in text by T. H. Nicholson, yellow endpapers, gilt edges, x + [ii] + 165 + [1] pages. A Fair-to-Near Good copy of this rare Dickens' Christmas book knockoff (needing to have its rear cover be reattached) with attractive illustrations that was published in as close to the format of the original Dickens' & British formats as possible. "This is not only reminiscent of the Dickens Christmas books, it is an amusingly slavish copy of them. Same size, same fine-ribbed red cloth covers, same yellow endpapers, same gilt edges, same format on virtually all respects. But not the same writing. ... The illustrations, however, are knockouts."--Grolier/Elliott 108 Still relatively bright gilt and bright unfoxed colored illustrations. Internally clean except for thumbnail-sized faint red stain (probably from cover) on upper right corner of Dedication, cocked with backstrip reattached & upper and lower caps lost, inner hinges weak.