Hervey walks through the whole Christmas season, from its feelings and signs to the individual days from St. Thomas’s Day and Christmas Eve to Twelfth Night. He describes old customs, games, carols, mummers and feasts, mixing antiquarian lore with sentiment, and the original edition carried illustrations by Robert Seymour.
A Victorian celebration of Christmas tradition published a few years before Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Download the free EPUB.