Christmas in Art and Song : a collection of songs, carols and descriptive poems, relatin to the festival of Christmas

New York: The Arundel Printing and Publishing Company, 1880. Original Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth/boards; gilt lettering and decoration/black border lines. AEG. 128 pp. full of various kinds of duotone illustrations. Good. Text is clean, but two signatures are detaching; some age toning to pages; foxing to end papers but not to contents. Covers rubbed, faded at spine, and a bit age-soiled. Item #159339

A delightful collection, all with lovely, contemporary illustrations, some musical notation, and plenty of text. Illustrations by "distinguished artists" (John Howe, Birket Foster, Rubens, Raphael, etc.). Works by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Scott, Longfellow, Clement Moore, and many others; The Boar's Head Carol, Wassail Bowl, In Excelsis Gloria, and other carols; many poems. A very traditional book for its period. Free of plastic and Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

OCLC: 7478569

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