The night before Christmas
Subtitle: illustrated with six color plates and numerous black and white drawings
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Charles E. Graham & Company
Published: 1870
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Santa Claus; Juvenile poetry; Christmas poetry; Children's poetry, American
Notes: Author found at end of text.

Title from cover.

"The use of berried holly-leaf border on the title page is the first known association of this foliage with the Christmas motif and this poem. Likewise, here is the first representation of Santa Claus in a red cloth coat and cap trimmed with white fur ..."--C.f. "The night before Christmas": an exhibition catalog. Pittsburgh: The Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, 1964.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.