The Christmas Book. London: Macmillan, 1944. First Edition. Pp179.Smooth green cloth boards, decorated in gilt, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

Inscribed by the Author on the half-title page to Camilla Bryden Brown, an English artist & illustrator.

A collection of stories aiming to shed light on the origins of some Christmas traditions. The explanations are linked together around a story of a middle-class English family Christmas.

Illustrated with drawings by Treyer Evans.