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.; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son,
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Ward, Lock, and Tyler
Published: 1869
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, with central panel design blocked in gold on a purple paper onlay. Spine design is similar to 1855 edition (McLean O 125); a.e.g. With the bookplate of David Graham. Encased in a later green buckram covered box with quarter morocco and title blocked in gold on spine. Includes a buckram covered portfolio with an original watercolour sketch by Foster, a preliminary study for the illustration printed on p. 54 of the publication.