Nathan Simon, New York, no date but believe circa 1900.  Hard cover, with Posthumous Papers being chapters 45 to 56 containing pages 657 to 817, and Christmas Stories containing pages 1 to 508.  Purple cloth over boards with chipped paper label on spine; edge, cover, corner and spine end wear, bit of board exposed at lower rear corner, small tears to cloth at top spine end; some spots, fading and mottling to cloth.  Binding with headbands, cracked at pp. 658/9 with all pages secure; top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed (some pages have not been opened).  Old water mark at fore and bottom edges of some pages; black ink spill on pages 680-1 which has blotted out some words; occasional age spot.  Illustrations by “Phiz” (H. K. Browne), C. Green and E. G. Dalziel; all illustrations present with printed tissue guards intact.  One of the first thousand impressions from a new set of plates, with publisher’s facsimile signature.