A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. by DICKENS, Charles - 1922]: With four illustrations in colour and four woodcuts by John Leech. A facsimile of the original edition with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton and a preface by B. W. Matz.

[London, Cecil Palmer, 1922]. A handsomely bound facsimile of the first edition of Dickens's first and most enduring Christmas gift book. This copy has been bound without the extra title page and prefatory matter by G. K. Chesterton and B. W. Matz, rendering it even more persuasive. Octavo (159 x 98 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun in dark red morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, single rule to boards gilt with coloured morocco onlay vignette after the frontispiece, decoration to turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. 3 facsimiles of Dickens's handwritten pages, 4 colour plates, black and white engravings throughout. Pages nice and clean, spine darkened, an excellent copy.