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 Dinner
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
Christmas, 1870s
Book Details
Author
Washington Irving
Illustrator
Randolph Caldecott
Publisher
Macmillan & Company
Place Published
City
London
Country
England
Date Published
1876
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series
Binding 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.
