The Christmas Book. Illustrated by Treyer Evans. London: Macmillan, 1944. First Edition. Pp, 179. Green cloth-boards stamped with gold holly and mistletoe, in pictorial jacket. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper, lightly chipped dust jacket.

A collection of stories aiming to shed light on the origins of some Christmas traditions. The explanations are linked together around a story of a middle-class English family Christmas.