A lot of antique quarter-leather Charles Dickens bindings in a Christmas theme. Fine bindings with blue leather and red marble paper covers. The backstrips have five raised bands with elaborate gilt decoration. Each volume has many illustrations in black and white. The endpages are marbled like the front cover. There is not gilt on the foredge. Published by Chapman & Hall, London (1886). Titles include The Christmas Carol; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man; and The Chimes. One volume includes an inserted Dickens party list from 1887.
