Jest 'for Christmas

Printed in red and black on white paper. Issued sewn into lettered red paper wrapper (24 x 15 cm.) Colored cut of girl carrying greens and boy carrying small pine tree pasted on cover; ornamented rubricated initial in shape of tree on page [1]; cut of red monkey on page [3] Poem in five eight-line stanzas type-signed: Eugene Field [1850-1895] Colophon on page [3]: At the sign of the Guzzling Ape, Bayberry Hill Press. Ruth & Foster Johnson ... send you their warm Christmas greetings and best wishes for 1973 with the hope that you will enjoy this Nineteenth Century bit of tomfoolery by Eugene Field together with its 1876 illustration.