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A fireside book, or, The account of a Christmas spent at Old Court / by the author of May you like it.
- Title
- A fireside book, or, The account of a Christmas spent at Old Court / by the author of May you like it.
- Author
- Tayler, Charles B. (Charles Benjamin), 1797-1875
- Publication
- London : Printed for J.A. Hessey, 1828.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | 19462.24.25 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
- Description
- 229, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.; 16 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Account of a Christmas spent at Old Court
- Subject
- Christmas stories, English
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Note
- A series of tales, as if told by members of the Fairfax family on succeeding evenings at Christmas at Old Court, 1712.
- C.B. Tayler is the author of May you like it.
- First edition of the collection.
- Frontispiece etched by G. Cruikshank.
- "L'envoy" (p. [231]) states that two of the stories, Katherine Paar and The savoyard peasant, had been previously published.
- Indexed In (note)
- Block, A. Engl. novel (1981 ed.)
- Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- OCLC
- 5395086
- SCSB-13436610
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library