The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and A New Year in.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: Chapman and Hall 1845. 8vo. Contemporary red half-morocco with marbled boards. Spine with raised bands and gilt. All edges gilt. Original front cover cloth bound in at back. (176pp.). With 13 black and white illustrations engraved frontispiece and title-page. New end-papers. 1st edition second state. Corners of engraved frontispiece and title-page water stained. NOTE: The illustrations in this edition were done by D. Maclisse R. Doyle J. Leech and C. Stanfield. This was the second book in Charles Dicken's series of Christmas Books of which there were five. The others in the series include 'A Christmas Carol' (1843) 'The Cricket on the Hearth' (1845) 'The Battle of Life' (1846) and 'The Haunted Man' (1848).