A visit from Saint Nicholas /

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Author / Creator:Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863.
Uniform title:Night before Christmas
Imprint:San Marino, CA : Huntington Library, c1998.
Description:1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Moore, Clement Clarke, -- 1779-1863 -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles.
Moore, Clement Clarke, -- 1779-1863
Santa Claus.
Children's poetry, American.
Manuscripts, American -- Facsimiles.
Santa Claus -- Juvenile poetry.
Christmas -- Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
Christmas poetry.
Manuscripts, American.
Facsimiles.
Juvenile works.
Manuscripts.
Poetry.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3054029
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ISBN:0873281713
Notes:"Reproduced in facsimile from a Huntington Library manuscript and published with a facsimile of an 1869 children's book in the Huntington Collection."
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Summary:Clement C. Moore wrote "A Visit from Saint Nicholas," better known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," as a gift for his children. If an enthusiastic houseguest had not sent the poem to a local newspaper editor, the jolly old elf who traveled by reindeer-drawn sleigh might have enlivened only one family's traditions. The Huntington Library's special edition of A Visit from Saint Nicholas is the first to include replicas of the poem written in Moore's own hand and a facsimile of the original 1869 four-color edition, Visit of St. Nicholas , one of the first American children's books printed in color. This modern reproduction of the two items, both in the Huntington's collections, uses state-of-the-art methods to match the character of the original McLoughlin Brothers edition as closely as possible. Whimsical illustrations by an anonymous 19th-century artist show St. Nick delivering a toy drum, a rocking horse, and Union soldier figurines to the cherubic children asleep in their beds.
Item Description:"Reproduced in facsimile from a Huntington Library manuscript and published with a facsimile of an 1869 children's book in the Huntington Collection."
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
ISBN:0873281713