112pp, richly illustrated in full colour. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering front and spine. 4to. Cloth a little rubbed at corners and spine tips. Gift inscription, in a childish hand, on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean and tight. An unusual retelling of the Christmas story, the birth of Jesus, through the ways in which Christmas has been celebrated, especially in the medieval period, with some stunning reproductions of medieval manuscripts, and associated Christmas myths, legends and traditions.
