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The night before Christmas : illustrated with six color plates and numerous black and white drawings.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Santa Claus (Fictitious character)--Juvenile poetry.
- Santa Claus.
- Santa Claus (Fictitious character).
- Christmas poetry.
- Children's poetry, American.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged)) : illustrations (some color).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Charles E. Graham and Company, [between 1870 and 1879]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Author found at end of text.
- Title from cover.
- "The use of berried holly-leaf border on the title page is the first known association of this foliage with the Christmas motif and this poem. Likewise, here is the first representation of Santa Claus in a red cloth coat and cap trimmed with white fur ..."--C.f. "The night before Christmas": an exhibition catalog. Pittsburgh: The Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, 1964.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 905333336
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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