Book Description

Christmas Entertainments: Wherein is described Abundance of Fiddle-Faddle Stuff, Raw-heads, Bloody-bones, Buggybows, and such like Horrible Bodies; Eating, Drinking, Kissing, & other Diversions; Witches, Wizards, Conjurers, and their merry Pranks; Fairies, Spectres, Ghosts & Apparitions. Illustrated with many diverting Cuts. MERRYMAN, Dick. Published by London: Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhall Presse, 1883, 1883 First edition thus, a reprint of the 1740 edition of Round About Our Coal Fire, a festive collection of popular tales and folk knowledge, reprinted numerous times in the 1730s and attributed to one Dick Merryman. This edition is number IV in Ye Leadenhall Presse's "Vellum-Parchment Shilling Series of Miscellaneous Literature".
Author Tuer
Date 1887
Binding Paper
Publisher LEADENHALL PRESS
Condition very good

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