A visit from Saint Nicholas /
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Author / Creator: | Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863. |
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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 |
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. |
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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 |