Research Catalog

Title

Christmas verse.

Publication

• New York : Oxford University Press, 1945.
• [New York] : Press of A. Colish, [1945]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Begg, John, 1903-1974
• Colish, Abraham, 1882-1963
• Bank, Arnold
• Oxford University Press publisher.
• A. Colish (Firm) printer.
• J.S. Cushing & Co. book designer.
• Haddon Craftsmen, Inc. book designer.
• Kurt H. Volk Inc. book designer.
• Typophiles (New York, N.Y.)

Description

viii, 34, [2] pages; 16 cm.

Series Statement

Typophiles monograph ; 16

Uniform Title

Typophiles monograph 16.

Subject

Christmas poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Christmas poetry
• Gift books
• Sammelbands (Provenance)

Note

• "... designed by John Begg and printed at the Press of A. Colish. The composition was done by A. Colish, J. S. Cushing Company, The Haddon Craftsmen, and Kurt H. Volk, Inc.; the special calligraphy by Arnold Bank. Of the first edition, 330 copies have been set aside ... for distribution to the Typophiles"--Colophon.
• "The poems included in this Christmas collection from the Oxford books of verse cover a period from the twelfth century to the present"--Page [v].
• Includes half title page.
• Printed in blue, red, and black.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rhythmus de nativitate Domini -- Cantiga de loor / King Alfonso X -- Carol [I sing of a maiden that is makeles] -- I saw three ships -- Winterrose -- New Prince, new pomp / Robert Southwell -- Nativity / Christopher Harvey -- Christmas carroll [So, now is come our joyfulst Feast] / George Wither -- Hymn for Christmas Day / John Byrom -- Nativity / James Montgomery -- Tryste noel / Louise Imogen Guiney -- Nöel / Théophile Gautier -- Twelfth day of Christmas -- A child's Christmas song / T.A. Daly -- King Arthur's waes-hael / Robert Stephen Hawker -- Journey of the Magi / Thomas Stearns Eliot.

LCCN

46005322

OCLC

• 45276788
• SCSB-10002982

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library