The night before Christmas
By: by Clement C. Moore, L.L.D. ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Contributors: Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, illustrator; J.B. Lippincott Company; R. & R. Clark (Firm); Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Co.
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Juvenile poetry; Christmas poetry
Notes: American issue of deluxe limited edition, numbered and signed by Arthur Rackham.

Half-title verso: "Edition limited to two hundred and seventy-five copies for England and two hundred and seventy-five copies for America..."

With color frontispiece and three other color plates.

Plates counted in pagination.

Text printed in red and black.

"Published first under the title: A visit from St. Nicholas."--page 7.

Rare Book copy: No. 171, signed by the illustrator Arthur Rackham, in limp parchment binding as issued.

Rare Book copy: Cased with: Goblin market / Christina Rossetti ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London, 1933 and King of the golden river / by John Ruskin ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London, 1932.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Issued in limp parchment binding with title and illustrator in gilt on upper cover, endpapers illustrated in red, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.