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Christmas carols ancient and modern. Edited with notes.

Name: Christmas carols ancient and modern. Edited with notes.
Author: Sylvestre, Joshua (pseud.)

Book Description

8vo, t.p. in black and red within red printed border, t. p. vignette, t.e. gilt, others uncut, illus. First edition thus. With an historical introduction and remarks on its origin prefixed to each carol.

Dealer Notes

The compiler is anonymous. The real "Joshua Sylvester" (1563 – 1618) was an English poet. Hugh Keyte, an editor of The New Oxford Book of Carols (Oxford University Press, 1992) believes that "Joshua Sylvester" is a pseudonym for a collaboration between William Sandys (1792-1874) and William Henry Husk (1814-1887). Originally Attributed by Allibone and Cushing to John Camden Hotten (1832-1873).

Author Sylvestre, Joshua (pseud.)

Date 1901

Binding Publisher's dec. cloth gilt (holly and mistletoe motif), signed with monogram “FD”

Publisher New York: A. Wessels

Condition Very good. Former owner’s inscr. on flyleaf and name card with note to recipient laid in.

Pages pp. 140

Price: £20.00

Offered by Christian F Verbeke Rare Books

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