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Title: Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

Author: Washington Irving

Illustrator: R. Caldecott

Release Date: February 24, 2007 [EBook #20656]

Language: English

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OLD CHRISTMAS

WASHINGTON IRVING

[Illustration: CHRISTMAS]

[Illustration: publisher's logo]

FIFTH EDITION

[Illustration: "The old family mansion, partly thrown in deep shadow,
and partly lit up by the cold moonshine"

--_Frontispiece._]

[Illustration: OLD CHRISTMAS:

FROM THE
Sketch Book
of
Washington Irving.

ILLUSTRATED BY
R CALDECOTT

London.
Macmillan & Co
1886]

[Illustration]

But is old, old, good old Christmas gone? Nothing
but the hair of his good, gray, old head and beard
left? Well, I will have that, seeing that I cannot
have more of him.

_Hue and Cry after Christmas._

[Illustration: PREFACE]

Before the remembrance of the good old times, so fast passing, should
have entirely passed away, the present artist, R. Caldecott, and
engraver, James D. Cooper, planned to illustrate Washington Irving's
"Old Christmas" in this manner. Their primary idea was to carry out the
principle of the Sketch Book, by incorporating the designs with the
text. Throughout they have worked together and _con amore_. With what
success the public must decide.

NOVEMBER 1875.

[Illustration: CONTENTS]

PAGE

CHRISTMAS 1

THE STAGE COACH 17

CHRISTMAS EVE 41