A HOLIDAY BOOK FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR: Embracing Legends, Tales, Poetry, Music, Sketches of Manners and Customs, Games and Sports, Etc.

Folio (41.5cm x 30cm x 2.5cm), vii prelims + pp227, numerous illustrations throughout incliuding both full page engravings and vignettes. Coloured engraved title page and frontispiece, with additional letter-press title.

Rebacked with original spine laid down, with the original, lavish chromolithographic plates decorating both front and rear boards.

Nine years after the publication of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the Victorian Christmas was in full swing! One feature of this was the series of festive supplements issued with the Christmas number of The Illustrated London News - as a treat for subscribers. This magnificent volume brings all those together in one book, but it also includes much merry material that is new.

Christmas tales, poetry, legends, songs and more fill these lavishly illustrated pages. conjuring up an enchanting atmosphere from leaf to leaf--red-cheeked revellers, musicians playing by lamplight, a dining table bowing under the weight of a feast.

Rebacked with original decorative cloth spine laid on.
Covers a little worn and bumped, but internally Very Good.
Light foxing especially to preliminary pages.