A CHRISTMAS CAROL, in prose being A Ghost Story of Christmas.

First edition. Limited edition. One of 25 copies, printed on vellum. Signed by the artist. Publisher's full vellum with titles and decoration in red and gilt to the upper board, titles in gilt to the spine. Illustrated title page, 50 drawings, calligraphic text, borders and initials in black and red by Alan Tabor. Colour frontispiece by Monro S. Orr. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the vellum with some toning and natural patination. The contents, with some isolated spotting and patination of the vellum are otherwise clean throughout. Rare in this form.

A facsimile of the original manuscript by the Manchester artist and calligrapher Alan Lansdown Tabor (1883-1957), now held in the John Rylands Library. Tabor wrote the entire text of Dickens' classic tale by hand and decorated it with medieval style illustrations. In 1916 George Harrap produced this facsimile in various forms, the most desirable and limited of which, is this vellum edition of just 25 copies, signed by Alan Tabor on the limitation page. A beautiful production.