Noël

1845 · 0009017 — London: The Punch Office 1845. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 16mo 112 pages later full polished brown calf <br/><br/>37 selections in prose and poetry to celebrate the holidays from Winter solstice to New Year's Day with plum pudding snapdragons dragons and advice on handling money at Christmas etc. "You resign yourself. Leaning back in your arm-chair you gaze vacantly on the bars of the grate and upon an indistinct vision of yourself in the character of a Christmas goose -- ready plucked and being done to a turn -- when the phantom vanishes at a horrible whisper - half heard - from your wife's lips and ending with "Ether that Paisley shawl or a new grand piano love !" The Punch Office hardcover