Christmas with the poets
Subtitle: a collection of songs, carols, and descriptive verses, relating to the festival of Christmas, from the Anglo-Norman period to the present time ; embellished with fifty-three tinted illustrations by Birket Foster, and with initial letters and other ornaments.
Contributors: Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899.; Vizetelly, Henry, 1820-1894.; Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.
Edition: 3rd. ed.
Publisher: David Bogue
Published: 1855
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Christmas -- Poetry; Carols.; Gift books -- Specimens.
Genres: Poetry
Notes: Added t.p. (dated 1855) and illustrated text pages printed in gold and tints; t.p. with some additional hand-colouring.

"Advertisement to the second edition" signed: H.V.

"Printed by Henry Vizetelly ... November 1854"--Colophon.

Illustrations "designed and drawn on wood by Birket Foster, and engraved by Henry Vizetelly"--P. ix.

MASS copy: With presentation inscription dated 1859. Ex-libris S.R. Brewis, Ilstone, Stokenchurch. Bound in red morocco-grain cloth, blocked in gold; a.e.g.

MASS copy: According to Howard Leathlean, there is a possibility that Henry Noel Humphreys designed the binding for this edition. Cf. "Henry Noel Humphreys" in the Private Library, Fifth Series, Vol. 3, No. 3, Autumn 2000, p. 145.