World's first printed Christmas card exhibits at Dickens museum

The world's first printed Christmas card has gone on show at the Charles Dickens Museum in London, just over a month before the Royal Mail deadline for posting Christmas cards in Britain.The card was printed in 1843, the year the Victorian author published "A Christmas Carol", the story of Ebenezer Scrooge whose miserable attitude is transformed after being visited by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.Designed by Henry Cole and illustrated by John Callcott Horsley, the hand-