{"id":667,"date":"2016-12-21T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2017-01-04T14:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T19:34:35","slug":"true-christmas-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/true-christmas-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"True Christmas Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First edition of <em><strong>A Christmas Carol<\/strong><\/em> by <strong>Charles Dickens<\/strong>, 1843, published by Chapman &amp; Hall, London, with four hand-colored illustrations by John Leech and additional b&amp;w illustrations by Linton. Original rust colored cloth covers with gilt lettering and decorations bound in on 3 pages in rear of elegantly rebound book. Binding is full polished green leather (faded to brown on spine), Rivi\u00e8re name is stamped on front endpaper, and entire book is in fine condition. Yes, that&#8217;s a first edition of this gem, in a signature leather binding. This is a rare and lovely book for the collector. &lt;sold&gt;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_670\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-670\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-670\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dickens-titlepage-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"first edition of A Christmas Carol, frontis and title page with tissue guard\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dickens-titlepage-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dickens-titlepage-150x117.jpg 150w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dickens-titlepage-1024x800.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dickens-titlepage.jpg 1886w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">first edition of A Christmas Carol, frontis and title page with tissue guard<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_671\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-671\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-671\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dickens-binding-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"beautiful leather binding \" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dickens-binding-223x300.jpg 223w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dickens-binding-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dickens-binding-761x1024.jpg 761w, http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dickens-binding.jpg 1380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">beautiful leather binding<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 1843, published by Chapman &amp; Hall, London, with four hand-colored illustrations by John Leech and additional b&amp;w illustrations by Linton. Original rust colored cloth covers with gilt lettering and decorations bound &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/true-christmas-treasure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[71,70,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}