Old Christmas / Washington Irving
Book
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
2017.11.23
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Christmas1870s
Washington Irving
Randolph Caldecott
The Cranford Series
Macmillan & Company
London
England
1876
Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series
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.
Flyleaf inscription: Florence Mary Etheridge, from John Millard, For progress in Grammar and Composition. 9 Stanley Gardens. xx. Xmas.
England