Summary
"An anthology of stories and poems, many of them were written by women. Imprint from copyright statement, foot of chromolithographed frontispiece plate. "No. 353. Christmas joys' story book ... It has a colored frontispiece. Around each page is a fancy border printed in red. The text and illustrations are in black. The cover is in cloth and stamped in gold and colors."--McLoughlin Bros.' catalogue (ca. 1900), p. 61. Copy in hand has an inscription dated 1906. Frontispiece and cover label chromolithographed. Textual illustrations produced by a photomechanical process. Illustrations signed by J.R. Chapin, Elizabeth S. Tucker, Culmer Barnes, "H.G.L., "C.S.P.," Ada L. Cone, Walter Bowman Russell, W.J. Mozart, "S.," Carl Marr, J.M. Hanford, S.B. McClure, Irene E. Jerome, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Albert Scott Cox, "W.J.F.," William Ludwell Sheppard, "L.D.N.," William Henry Shelton, "S.G." (i.e., Sears Gallagher), "H.B.," H.G. Laskey, "H.P.S." (i.e., H. Pruett Share), Carl Hirschberg, "C.A.N.," F. Townsend (i.e., Frances Barnard Townsend), Arthur S. Douglas, "L.M.," "A.H. (Alice Hirschberg), Edmund Henry Garrett, "H.P.S.," M. Howard, "J.M.D.," (i.e., Jessie McDermott Walcott), William Ladd Taylor, "M.T.," Augustus Waldeck Buhler, "J.H. Moser, Washington '88," (i.e., James Henry Moser), M. Brown, Chester Loomis, Childe Hassam, and Louis Meynell."