The First Christmas Card Boxed Notecards Morgan's Bibles

The First Christmas Card Boxed Notecards Morgan's BiblesFrom the Morgan Library & Museum's collection, this image of the first Christmas card printed is reproduced for your own use this holiday season. Designed by John Callcott Horsley (1817 1903) and printed in 1842 by J. R. Jobbins of Holborn, the original card bears the sentiment "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you" and were commissioned by Sir Henry Cole under his "Felix Summerly" pseudonym. Few of the original copies of this card survive!

Late Victorians and Edwardians were obsessed with tracking down the locations—dubbed “Dickensland”—that famously featured in his novels

Find out with this Three-Headed Dragon puppet

At a time when the country had no Federal Reserve system

West African

The witch has spellbound through folktales and dramatic literature as well

sizes and ages

underpinned by drawing

Complete with a glossary of key terms and chronology

He thinks this is everything he ever wanted

and is perfect for enthusiastic and reluctant readers alike

and line drawings

the Morgan’s Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts