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The christmas frolick or, Mirth for the Holidays. Consisting of A great Number of admirable Stories never before printed; with a select Collection of others, from rare, old, and scarce Books. With a Variety of New Songs, written on purpose for this Work, and adapted to well known Tunes. Likewise a select Store of New Jests, Anecdotes, Whims, Oddities. &c. copied as spoken by our First-Rate Wits; and never yet offered to public Inspection. The whole calculated to warm the Imagination, raise the Spirits in the gloom of Winter, and procure, what every one wishes, A Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.

Title
The christmas frolick [electronic resource] : or, Mirth for the Holidays. Consisting of A great Number of admirable Stories never before printed; with a select Collection of others, from rare, old, and scarce Books. With a Variety of New Songs, written on purpose for this Work, and adapted to well known Tunes. Likewise a select Store of New Jests, Anecdotes, Whims, Oddities. &c. copied as spoken by our First-Rate Wits; and never yet offered to public Inspection. The whole calculated to warm the Imagination, raise the Spirits in the gloom of Winter, and procure, what every one wishes, A Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
Publication
London : printed for G. Allen, in Paternoster-Row, and sold by all Booksellers, Stationers, and News-Carriers, [1775]

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Description
72p.; 12⁰.
Subject
Christmas stories, English > Juvenile literature > Early works to 1800
Genre/Form
Juvenile literature.
Note
  • Price from imprint: price One Shilling.
  • Reproduction of original from John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
Indexed In (note)
  • English Short Title Catalog
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
OCLC
  • 642474227
  • ECCO1-T165930
Title
The christmas frolick [electronic resource] : or, Mirth for the Holidays. Consisting of A great Number of admirable Stories never before printed; with a select Collection of others, from rare, old, and scarce Books. With a Variety of New Songs, written on purpose for this Work, and adapted to well known Tunes. Likewise a select Store of New Jests, Anecdotes, Whims, Oddities. &c. copied as spoken by our First-Rate Wits; and never yet offered to public Inspection. The whole calculated to warm the Imagination, raise the Spirits in the gloom of Winter, and procure, what every one wishes, A Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
Imprint
London : printed for G. Allen, in Paternoster-Row, and sold by all Booksellers, Stationers, and News-Carriers, [1775]
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Indexed In:
English Short Title Catalog, T165930.
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Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Place of Publication
Great Britain England London.
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