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In addition, I have run across more than a few “modified” early facsimile editions that have been passed off as first editions to unsuspecting buyers.ĭue to the ever increasing cost of purchasing a First Edition “Carol” or even one of the second through fourteenth “impressions” published between 18 issued in the same basic format as the first edition, collecting the various facsimile editions published during the 20 th and early 21st Century can be a much lower cost alternative to purchasing an original first or early edition of this highly sought after book. There has been considerable confusion caused by the “undated” facsimile editions of the “Carol” being mistaken for, or incorrectly identified as original first or early editions of the book. There are primarily two reasons I have prepared this unofficial bibliography of the published facsimile editions of “A Christmas Carol.” There is just something special about reading the “Carol” in the original size, texture, typeset and details of the novella written in Dickens’ descriptive Victorian vernacular with the original John Leech’s illustrations. Over the past 45 years, I have enjoyed all the different editions in my collection however, other than the first edition and subsequent “impressions” (2nd through 14th editions with minor textural corrections) that followed, I have a fondness for the facsimile editions. le: an exact copy or reproduction, especially of written or printed material.Facsimile Editions of “A Christmas Carol”įac