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
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