DICKENS, Charles (author). Ronald SEARLE (illustrator). A Christmas Carol. London Perpetua Books. 1961

Imperial 8vo.; publisher’s pinkish-red cloth prettily blocked with a decorative holly wreath title vignette to upper cover, lettered gilt to spine, double-page pictorial endpapers in colours, in striking dustwrapper with wrap-around illustration by Searle; pp. [viii], 9-109 + [i]; with illustrations in profusion, including full- and double-page coloured plates and others in monochrome; a fine copy without ownership marks or inscription, in an equally fine, unclipped dustwrapper (21s.); a beautiful copy.

First Searle illustrated edition of this “richly stuffed plum pudding of a story” (flap blurb).