Name/Title
Old Christmas / Washington IrvingEntry/Object ID
2017.11.23Description
xiv, 165 p., [7] leaves of plates incl. frontis : ill.
Note: two-tone t.p.
Contents include:
Christmas
The Stage Coach
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
The Christmas DinnerCollection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
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Christmas, 1870sBook Details
Author
Washington IrvingIllustrator
Randolph CaldecottPublisher
Macmillan & CompanyDate Published
1876Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Cranford SeriesBinding Notes
Bound in dark green cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and titles to spine and front board. Central gilt vignette portrays Christmas festivities and couples dancing while a fiddler plays. Brown stone endpapers. All edges gilt.
Bookbinders' ticket to rear: bound by Burns & Co.Notes
Flyleaf inscription: Florence Mary Etheridge, from John Millard, For progress in Grammar and Composition. 9 Stanley Gardens. xx. Xmas.