Printed and bound by Grafos in full blue artificial silk blocked in gold with design by Michael Gills
in full green-purple cloth blocked in gold with design by Hillier
cream paper boards with an enlargement of a detail of the frontispiece in dark brown
gilt and black lettering to spine
Smy’s black and white illustrations are in the text
The Chimes Agatha Christie Printed and bound by GrafosThe Chimes, by Charles Dickens. Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. First edition illustrated by Thomson. 8vo (21cm x 15cm), pp. v, 138. Publisher's blue cloth elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt. One tipped in frontispiece with tissue guard, and a further six tipped in colour plates by Hugh Thomson, mounted onto captioned grey art paper, decorated endpapers, chapter head pieces as drawings of bells. "A goblin story of some bells that rang an old year