by Marian I. Doyle
This is another in a series of wonderful Schiffer price guide books like the Robert Brenner Christmas books, in which the "price guide" is in reality a very small part of the book and the volume is really packed with full color photos. This is Christmas ephemera from the Victorian era: postcards, advertising cards, magazines illustrations, engravings, Christmas cards, book illustrations, early photographs, and even a few magazine pages. The illustrations are peppered with text explaining the customs of the time, and passages from period writings, from Harriet Martineau's diaries of touring the United States in 1835 to late Victorian passages from magazines, along with other quotations. Delightful, eye-popping illustrations of winter sports, Victorian decorating, gift-giving and gift-bringing, the evolution of Santa Claus, and celebrating Christmas Eve and Day. You don't need to collect anything to enjoy this wonderful book!
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