‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

From the publisher: Thanks to the anonymous publication of the poem “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” in the TROY SENTINAL in 1823, a plumper, merrier St. Nick was born, transformed into the sleigh-riding, chimney-diving, jolly old elf we now call Santa Claus. Complemented by gorgeous monochrome illustrations that are meticulously true to pre-Victorian times, this definitive volume of ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, honoring the poem’s original language, is now available in a compact gift edition.