Christmas Stories. Illustrations by Randolph Caldecott.
Chicago, Illinois
by Caldecott, Randolph.
Chicago, Illinois: The Cuneo Press, Inc., MCMXLV. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters & decorations to spine, top edge gilt, uncut, xiii + 240 pp. Good+, with light edgewear that includes a bit of fraying. Contents: The Hall; The Busy Man; Family Servants; The Widow; The Lovers; Family Reliques; An Old Soldier; THe Widow’s Retinue; REady-Money Jack; Bachelors; A Literary Antiquary; The Farm-House; Horsemanship; Love Symptoms; Falconry; Hawking; Fortune-Telling; Love-Charms; A Bachelor’s Confessions; Gipsies; Village Worthies; The Schoolmaster; The School; A Village Politician; The Rookery; May-Day; The Culprit; Lovers’ Troubles; The Weddings; The Birth of Christ (Tennyson); The Shepherd’s Hymn (Richard Crashaw); A Christmas Carol (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow); 1944 Christmas Message (His Holiness Pope Pius XII). (Inventory #: 3370bd)