A Christmas Book: An Anthology for Moderns by D.B. Wyndham Lewis and G.C. Heseltine
A Christmas Book: An Anthology for Moderns by D.B. Wyndham Lewis and G.C. Heseltine is a 320-page hardcover published by E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1928. There is no dust jacket. The spine is slightly cocked. Inside, the pages are clean and unmarked. Book Summary The feast of Christmas proper extends from the Vigil to Twelfth Night. For the purposes of this anthology we have occasionally in a rich and careless manner assumed the Feast to overlap a few days on either side of the Rubric. The following essentials to any Christmas Anthology will be found nowhere in this Anthology: extracts from Dickens, Pepys (with one exception), and (with one exception) Washington Irving, and reference (with one exception) to Father Christmas; also fake-Gothic carols (including Good King Wenceslas), robins, property Yule-logs, synthetic snow, red-faced jovial Squires, wigs by Clarkson, Ye Olde Englysshe Yuletyde Cheere (18--), and all manifestations of the coloured Christmas Supplement. We have