The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, the 'squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner', Marley's ghost and poor Tiny Tim has been a bestseller since it was hurriedly published in time for Christmas in 1843. This very fine edition presents a photographic facsimile of Dickens’s manuscript, now in the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, with a transcription facing each handwritten page, an introduction to the history of A Christmas Carol by Declan Kiely and a foreword by Colm Tóibín.