Page [4] blank. On page [1] engraving of Santa Claus holding clay pipe and toys. "Thomas Nast's cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly, January 1, 1881." Caption title. Poem in five stanzas of varying length. "With hopes and good wishes at Christmas time and for the New Year." Names of author and publishers from ms. inscription on Brown University copy.
A.C.H. Page [4] blank. On page [1] engraving of Santa Claus holding clay pipe and toys. "Thomas Nast's cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly, January 1, 1881." Caption title. Poem in four four-line stanzas and final couplet. "Best wishes for a Merry Christmas for 1973 and a Happy New Year for 1974." Names of author and publishers from ms. inscription on Brown University copy.
Title from first line of poem. Illustrated in red and green. Date from internal evidence.
French fold; printed on double leaves. At end of text: By Walter Lowenfels, poet and scholar facing five years imprisonment for harboring "subversive" thoughts.
French fold; printed on double leaves. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Silhouette illustration of family with donkey and nightscape tipped on page [1] Fourteen-line poem on page [3] At end of poem: Dr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Murphey, 1939. Suggested place of publication because Brown University copy acquired with other greeting cards from the Murpheys, one of which has their address in Augusta.
Page [4] blank. Cover title.
Page [4] blank. Printed in sepia on cream paper. Cover title.
Printed in two columns. At head of title prose introduction naming John J. Chapman as author of text of cantata. Text of second part of Christmas cantata to be sung by the congregation, angels, shepherds and kings. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed in green; text within embossed border. At end of text: Richard E. Rochette, S 2/c. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Comanche.
Printed in red on green paper.
Page [4] blank. Poetry. Holiday greeting printed in reddish brown and brown on tan paper. At head of text cut in medieval style of Nativity scene with shepherds. Poem "translated from a German mystery play of the Dark Ages" in six stanzas. Imprint information from dealer. At end of text: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. First line: Now it is raw wintertime.
Page [2] blank. Folded at top. Printed in dark green on cream paper. Below text on page [3] cut of little girl looking at Jesus in manger beside Virgin Mary. Caption title. Poem. At end of poem: Elizabeth Madox Roberts. "Courtesy of Viking-Penguin, Inc."
Pages [3] and [4] blank. Title from first line. Printed in green on green paper.
At end of text: Christmas Eve, 1862.
At end of text: Christmas Eve, 1862.
Printed in red and black; rubricated initial. Poem in four four-line stanzas. Type signed at end: Bradley Gilman. At end of text: Canton, Massachusetts. December twenty-fifth, Nineteen hundred fourteen.
ACH. Page [4] blank. On page [1] engraving of Santa Claus holding clay pipe and toys. "Thomas Nast's cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly, January 1, 1881." Caption title. "Christmas greetings 1975." Poem in four five-line stanzas. Names of author and publishers from ms. inscription on Brown University copy.
ACH. Page [4] blank. On page [1] engraving of Santa Claus holding clay pipe and toys. "Thomas Nast's cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly, January 1, 1881." Caption title. "Christmas greetings 1975." Poem in four five-line stanzas. Names of author and publishers from ms. inscription on Brown University copy.
Poetry. Pages [2-3] blank. Within ornamental architectural border inscribed: Don Lee.. Type-signed at end: Edward Roland [sic] Sill. Colophon on page [4]: Printed for Don Lee by John Henry Nash of San Francisco. By permission of Houghton Mifflin & Company, Boston & New York.
Printed on orange paper in one and two columns within metallic double-line border witn green and red holly sprays at corners and rubricated initial. Tipped on tan sheet (31 x 24 cm.) bearing legend: A unique Christmas greeting. The rich effect ... is representative of the typographic results secured by J.H. Nash, of Taylor, Nash & Taylor, San Francisco. The text is from the Poems of Edward Rowland Sill ....
Broadsheet printed in sepia on heavy paper within curvilinear border on each side. One hymn on each side, each headed: Christmas hymn. In lower margin on each side: Turn over. Suggested place and range of publication dates because Wonderful night used in 1871 in Hymns for the First Baptist Sabbath school in Providence (Brown University copy Rider RB917)
Text of traditional English carol relating life of Christ. Text of traditional English carol relating life of Christ. Hand colored wood-engraving of manger scene at head of title. Printed in three columns. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Printed on heavy paper within border of type ornament sections. Text of hymn in four nine-line stanzas with one-line chorus: Joy, brothers, joy! Place of publication and range of publication dates suggested because same hymn also on broadsheet with hymn Wonderful night, also used in Hymns for First Baptist Sabbath school in 1871 in Providence (Brown University copy Rider RB917)
Poetry. Printed on peach paper within double-line border. Cover title. Type-signed at end: B.K. Sandwell. 104 Bagot Street, Kingston.
