Front matter
Reading edition
46(Original First Edition Cover; 1843 Original Illustrations in Color by John Leech)
19337 (Published in 1905; Illustrations in Black and White by G. A. Williams)
24022 (Published in 1915; Illustrations in Black and White and Color by By Arthur Rackham)
30368 (First edition with original hand written pages; Black and White illustrations.)
Transcriber's Note: this is a facsimile version of the original manuscript, hand-written by Charles Dickens. Every effort has been made to preserve the appearance of the First Edition—page breaks and labels have been kept, to match the original script, and spelling, grammar and typographical errors have been left unchanged.