Christmas Books on Exhibition

An interesting collection of Christmas books is now on exhibition in the Widener Memorial Room of the Library. It is an unusually rare and valuable collection of first editions among which are many books by Dickens and Thackeray, illustrated in colors. Two of the books by Dickens are "The Holiday Grammar and "The Yule Log", illustrated by George Cruikshanks.

The collection also includes Punch's Pocketbooks, illustrated by John Leech and others; Comic Alamanacks, by Cruikshanks; and the very rare Kate Greenaway Almanacks.