Description
Very Good+ mylar covered dust jacket has a window to the cover illustration. Very Good+ binding is illustrated paper over boards showing a boy, Santa, girl, surrounded by a wreath, white lettering, red and black lettering on the spine, multiple illustration collage on the back cover. The book and dust jacket have thee same illustrations. Illustrated end papers. Color illustrations throughout. The “1” is present on the number line on copyright page which is the designation of first edition. The pages are clean and the binding is tight. The book measures 8.3″ tall x 7.8″ wide.
About the book (form the dust jacket)
About the author (from Tolly St. Nick. eager children, holly boughs and plum pudding: the pleasures of an old-fashioned Christmas, in the spirit of love and sharing, sparkle again in Joy To The WORLD. This opulent volume, by the authors of A VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK. Celebrates the classic holiday traditions dearest to the Victorian heart-and to our own a century later. Each lushly layered page mixes antique greeting cards. children’s books, paper toys and games, and other images from one of America’s finest private collections of antique paper ephemera, with rich brocade, velvet, rare ornaments and collectibles. Accompanying text recounts the lore, legends, myths and manners of the Victorian Day of Days.
About the authors (From the dust jacket)
CYNTHIA HART is a contributing editor to Victoria magazine. Her design studio in New York City specializes in product design and photo art direction.
JOHN GROSSMAN is the owner curator of the John Grossman Collection of Antique Images, with more
than 50,000 items; he is also president of The Gifted Line, a gift paper product company.
PRISCILLA DUNHILL is a contributing editor to Victoria magazine and co-author of Glorious Gardens, published by Clarkson N. Potter.
