In this hauntingly beautiful volume, artist John A. Rice re-envisions Dickens’s seemingly familiar Christmas classic as a true Victorian ghost story.

Features original color illustrations, gilt edges, and a vegan leather binding with deluxe stamping and includes Charles Dickens’s complete and unabridged original text.

The Victorians knew that the end of the year is a precipice, a time of change and transition. They captured the essence of this season―the yearning for what is lost, the fear of the unknown, but also the hope for what is to come―in the fantastical storytelling tradition known as the “midwinter’s tale.” And of all such tales, the most famous is A Christmas Carol.

In his new illustrated edition of A Christmas Carol, John A. Rice draws on the influence of Victorian Spiritualism and fin de siècle Symbolism to emphasize the deeper symbolism and spirituality of Dickens’s novella. Through five absorbing full-page illustrations and a number of enchanting vignettes―married to an elegant typographic design―Rice reveals Scrooge’s encounters with the spirits as a soul’s journey from darkness to light.

Dimensions ~ 10.5" x 8.5" x 0.5"