Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, John Ruskin Books. These three books are by famous authors of the 1800’s, and their titles are “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, “Barrack Room Ballads And Other Poems” by Rudyard Kipling, and “The Seven Lamps of Architecture” by John Ruskin. The Dickens book is titled “A Christmas Carol”, illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn and published by G.P. Putnam’s in New York and London in 1900. The book has red soft leather covers, gilt titles and decorations on the spine, a gilt title and gilt decorations on the front cover, decorated endpapers which read “The Ariel Booklets”, an illustrated frontis with a protective tissue guard, the tilte page, a copyright page dated 1900, a contents page, a three page list of illustrations, 226 pages of text, and the top edge is gilt. It also comes in an attractive slipcase which reads “The Ariel Booklets” and is numbered “43” on the underside of the slipcase. The book measures 5 1/2 x 3 7/8 in. wide and is in great condition, with a tight binding and clean pages and text, clean illustrations, and bright gilt. The slipcase has slight wear at the heel and a bump at the crown, and a very attractive book and slipcase together. The Kipling book is titled “Barrack Room Ballads And Other Poems”, with an Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole, and it was published in New York by Thomas Y. Crowell Company in 1899. The covers are a soft green leather with gilt lettering and gilt decorations on the spine, dark green covers with a gilt decoration in the center, gray-green endpapers, a battlefield scene on the frontis, then the title page, a copyright page, three pages of Contents, thirteen pages about the Life of Rudyard Kipling (vii - xix), 253 pages of extra, and the top edge is gilt. The book measures 6 1/4 x 4 in. wide, with a tight binding and clean pages and text. The only blemishes are on the spine and covers - the spine has wear and slight loss at the heel and crown, rubbing along the edges of the spine, scrapes on the covers and rubbing and wear at the tips, and a great book for Kipling lovers. “The Seven Lamps Of Architecture” was written by John Ruskin, with illustrations drawn by the author, reprinted from the sixth English edition and published in New York and Boston by Thomas Y. Crowell, the first edition was published in 1849 and this copy is undated, but probably published circa 1890 based on the preface and the owner’s inscription near the front (the inscription reads “A Merry X-Mas to Alice from her cousin L .B. S. X-mas 1895”), in a hard, but flexible leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine, dark covers, beautiful blue marbled endpapers, a frontis of a church window with arches, a tissue guard, then a vignette title page, the regular title page, a Note dated 1880, a three-page Preface to the Edition of 1880, followed by a five-page Preface to the First Edition, one page of Contents, a List of Plates, 282 pages of text, five Appendices that run to 293, and all the edges are gilt. The book measures 6 1/8 x 4 in. wide and is in good condition. The binding is tight and the pages and text are clean, with rubbing along the edges of the spine a couple of small blemishes on the covers, slight soiling on the first blank endpaper, with a slight gutter separation on the same page, faint brown spots on the frontispiece and title pages, and the rest of the book is very clean. Three books by very good authors from the 1800’s, and great contents. #239 #1688