A 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:finely bound Facsimile Edition of 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:A Christmas Carol, printed circa 1950.

• Charles Dickens (English). 
• A Christmas Carol In Prose Being A Ghost Story of Christmas.
• London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. (c.1950).
• Illustrated with 4 plates John Leech and 4 illustrations by W.J. Linton.
• Bound in full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers ruled in gilt, front cover with a multi-color morocco onlay reproducing Mr. Fezzwig's Ball, gilt dentelles, marbled pastedowns, and endpapers, all edges gilt, by Bayntun, housed in a red cloth open ended slipcase.

Regarded as Dicken's most widely read novel and considered to be "the greatest Christmas book ever written in any language" (Eckel p. 116) selling more than 6000 copies in the few days leading up to Christmas. The work was extravagantly costly as Dickens for the first time (and incidentally his last) used color in the title-page and etchings as he wanted to make the book a beautiful gift and to be a celebration of 𒆙the Christmas spirit. Afte𝄹r the initial success, Dickens continued the series throughout the 1840's, maintaining "the Carol" philosophy to "strike a sledgehammer blow" for the poor, uneducated, and repressed.