The night before Christmas : illustrated with six color plates and numerous black and white drawings.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
Main Author: Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863 (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Charles E. Graham & Company, [between 1870 and 1879]
Series:Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
Subjects:
Santa Claus > (Fictitious character) > Juvenile poetry.
Christmas poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
Genre:
Juvenile poetry.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged)) : illustrations (some color).
Format: Electronic eBook
Description
Note: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.