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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reissue of the rare 1896 Dodd, Mead classic. Binding is cloth.

First edition, this one of only 15 numbered copies printed on Japanese vellum, in deluxe full vellum binding. Illustrated by Walter Crane. 8vo., original full vellum lettered in gilt on spine. A neat pencil inscription, otherwise a very good copy. Contributors include Andrew Lang, William Morris, Selwyn Image, Christina Rossetti, Swinburne, John Davidson, and Robert Bridges; contains the rst publication of a poem, 'Mary Mother of Divine Grace, Compared to the Air We Breathe', by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The work is divided into sections: Latin Hymns, Early Carols, Later Poems and Carols, and Christmas Merrymaking. …