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.
Edition: 2nd. ed.
Publisher: David Bogue
Published: 1852
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Christmas -- Poetry; Carols.; Gift books -- Specimens.
Genres: Poetry
Notes: Added t.p. (dated 1851) and illustrated text pages printed in gold and tints; t.p. with some additional hand-colouring.

Prefatory note, signed H.V., notes "improvements" to the 2nd. ed., "the most important of which are several new designs [by] Birket Foster".

"Printed by Henry Vizetelly ... December 1851"--Colophon.

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

MASS copy: With presentation inscription dated Christmas day 1852. With the bookplates of John Gilbert Talbot and Ruari McLean. Bound in half red morocco and red sand-grain cloth, with spine blocked in gold; a.e.g.