A visit from Saint Nicholas / illustrated by Aldren Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863, author.

Contributor:

Watson, Aldren Auld, 1917-2013, illustrator.

Peter Pauper Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Night before Christmas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christmas poetry.

Genre:

Private press books (Publishing) -- Peter Pauper Press.

Children's literature -- 1945.

Private press books (Printing)

Rag (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Original Old Style.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[4], 16 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon [N.Y.] : Peter Pauper Press, [1945]

Notes:

"The poem which follows was written by Dr. Clement Clarke Moore, probably in 1823"--Note.

Issued in slipcase.

"This edition... is set by hand in the Original Old Style types and printed on rag paper made specially for the Peter Pauper Press"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Cited in:

Donnelly & Dobkin, 581 (page 161)

OCLC:

1033604