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
By: 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.; Suddon, Alan, 1924-; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Ward, Lock, and Tyler
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Christmas -- Poetry; Carols.; Gift books -- Specimens
Genres: Poetry; Specimens
Notes: Prefatory note signed: H.V. [i.e. Henry Vizetelly].

Added illustrated t.p. printed in two or three colours and gold, with additional hand-colouring.

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

Illustrations printed in black, with two or three tints; ornaments and borders printed in gold.

MASS copy: Bound in green calico cloth, blocked in gold, black and blind in the same design as the 5th ed. (McLean Q 64.5), with the central panel blocked in gold on a red paper onlay. Spine design is similar to 1855 edition (McLean O 125); a.e.g. With binder's ticket: "S.Waterhouse  Bookbinder  Bradford", and bookseller's label: "Books Purchased  S. Waterhouse  Bookseller, Bradford  Catalogues Free". With later bookseller's label: "Richard Booth  Hay-on-Wye Castle, Wales". From the library of Alan Suddon.