CHRISTMAS IN THE OLDEN TIME,
A POEM
BY SIR WALTER SCOTT
ILLUSTRATED
BY EDMUND H. GARRETT, HENRY SANDHAM, HARRY FENN, CHILDE HASSAM,
J. STEEPLE DAVIS, H. P. BARNES, & GEORGE A. TEEL
ENGRAVED UNDER THE SUPERVISION
OF GEORGE T. ANDREW
*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ MANY ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS ~ CLASSIC CHRISTMAS POEM ***
New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1886.
Printed by the Mershon Company Press, Rahway NJ.
• likely first American edition - no edition/printing stated on copyright page
• measures about 10.25'' x 7.5''
• publisher's beautiful original decorative yellow cloth Victorian fine binding
• beveled edges to boards
• embossed gold gilt, black, and red stamping
• textblock all edges gilt
• floral patterned endpapers
• frontispiece portrait of Scott
• Scott's poem is printed in full in a standard font at the beginning
• the poem is then presented in 25 pages of calligraphy, each facing a full-page engraving with vignette background
• several more engraved decorations
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