A Visit from St. Nicholas
Decorative paper cover with title label affixed to front. On first flyleaf leaf: "This little book has been printed to convey to their friends the Holiday Greetings of William Edwin Rudge and Bruce Rodgers. / Mount Vernon, New York, 1920". 9 pp. Illustrated headpiece and tailpiece showing a man looking out an open window at Santa's sleigh landing on a snow covered roof, and Santa with a sack by a chimney piece.
Artwork Details
- Title: A Visit from St. Nicholas
- Author: Clement Clarke Moore (American, New York 1779–1863 Newport, Rhode Island)
- Illustrator: Florence Wyman Ivins (American, 1881–1948)
- Published in: Mount Vernon
- Date: 1920
- Medium: Illustrations: color lithographs
- Dimensions: 8 9/16 × 5 5/8 × 1/8 in. (21.8 × 14.3 × 0.3 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
- Object Number: 62.650.184(1)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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