Roses and holly
Subtitle: a gift-book for all the year
By: with original illustrations by Gourlay Steell ... Samuel Bough ... R. Herdman ... John M'Whirter ... Clark Stanton ... John Lawson and other eminent artists ; engraved by R. Paterson.
Contributors: Steele, Gourlay, 1819-1894; Bough, Samuel, 1822-1878; Herdman, Robert, 1829-1888; MacWhirter, John, 1839-1911; Stanton, G. Clark, 1832-1894; Lawson, John, fl. 1865-1909; Doyle, Charles Altamont, 1832-1893; Hay, George, 1831-1913; Paterson, Robert, fl. 1860-1899; Ballantyne & Company
Series: Nimmo's carmine gift-books
Publisher: William P. Nimmo
Published: 1866
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Wood-engraved plates included in pagination.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-2] at end.

Text and plates printed within thin red rule border.

Title is listed in publisher's advertisements under "Nimmo's Carmine Gift-books.".

Other illustrators include Charles A. Doyle and George Hay.

Includes works by Thackeray, Goldsmith, Montgomery, Poe, Ruskin, Charles Lamb, Carlyle, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Dickens, Scott, Swift, Burns, Thomson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Barry Cornwall and others.

"The illustrations which adorn Roses and Holly have been specially drawn and engraved for the volume; and among them will be found original examples of several of the most distinguished Scottish artists.  The entire artistic and mechanical work has been executed in the Northern Capital; and the publisher puts it forth with some degree of confidence, as a favourable example of art and typography"--Preface.

MASS copy: Bound in red-brown sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  Spine with imprint: "W. P. Nimmo".  Lacking front free end-paper.