A fireside book, or, The account of a Christmas spent at Old Court
By: by the author of May you like it [i.e. C.B. Tayler]
Contributors: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790-1840; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790-1840
Publisher: Printed for J.A. Hessey
Published: 1828
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: English Christmas stories
Other titles: Account of a Christmas spent at Old Court
Notes: A series of tales, as if told by members of the Fairfax family on succeeding evenings at Christmas at Old Court, 1712.

Frontispiece by G. Cruikshank.

"L'envoy," [1] leaf at end not accounted for in collation, states that two of the stories, Katherine Paar and The savoyard peasant, had been previously published.

First edition of the collection, Block p. 233.

Work of fiction.