For sale is a most wonderful 1st Edition of the The Twelve Days Of Christmas.  This book is a perfect gift book, a symbolic Christmas tree ablaze with candles to illuminate the season and its story: hung with gifts, some of them well known and expected, others unusual: and festooned with ephemeral tinsel to sparkle against the sombre green of the traditional tree.  The spiritual element of Christmas still inspired all branches of the Cristian faith and the more mundane element is still expressed by the simple traditions of good friendship, good feeding, and good drinking.  And so Miles and John Hadfield have assembled a kind of literary museum of the traditions and observances relating to the significant days which the Christian church took over from the pagans.  Even more of this book is explained in the headings of the jacket which was designed by Eric Fraser.  This book does come with the original dust jacket and that is covered with a plastic jacket as well as you will see in the pictures.  There are several beautiful art works inside some are in black and white and some in color.  The art itself is a gift.  This book is filled with history told in poems, the written letters and the paintings.  I cannot say enough good about this beautiful Christmas book.  What a gift it would make for the upcoming holiday!  

The book comes in very good condition with no writing on pages and no tares.