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    Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
    Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
    Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
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    Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

    By Randolph Caldecott and Washington Irving

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateSep 1, 1977
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    Randolph Caldecott

    Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was a British artist and illustrator and the namesake of the Caldecott Medal. Although primarily known for highly influential children's book illustrations, he also lent his artistic skills to novels, travel writing, and humorous cartoons, as well as sculpture and paintings. Some of his best known illustrations appear in The House That Jack Built, John Gilpin, The Three Jovial Huntsmen, and A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go.

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    • 4/5
      A look back to when Christmas was fading as a holiday in pre-Dickins England and American Washington Irving was nostalgic for the old ways of celebrating.
    • 3/5
      Quick and interesting read about how Christmas was celebrated in the past.Liked the way it was divided up into the different aspects of Christmas; travelling for the celebration, Christmas Eve, the morning, Christmas dinner.Interesting to see which traditions have continued, perhaps without people knowing exactly why.Very well written, Irving painted a picture so you could easily imagine the scenes he was describing.Would like to know when this was written, I would guess around Victorian era.
    • 3/5
      A charming account of the author's Christmas spent at the Bracebridge manor in the English countryside around 1818. Even then, the author complains that the celebration of Christmas has lost its feeling, and that only a few still value and practice the old traditions. In fact, the book is generally an argument for actively reviving old ways and returning to life outside the large cities, but by practice instead of by scholarly research.Irving skillfully makes you feel the cold of winter stagecoach rides and the warmth of the fireplace and smells of cooking meats when you come indoors. Characters are created with just a few broad strokes repeatedly used, but the technique works. The rituals of Christmas Eve, Day and Dinner are delightfully described and commented on. You can't help but feel the joy spreading through those gathered for the celebration.The book is complimented by more than 100 wonderful sketch illustrations by Ralph Caldecott and the inclusion of songs and poems from the day.
    • 4/5
      "Old Christmas" is an 1875 collection of Christmas stories first appearing Washington Irving's "Sketch Book" published in 1819-1820. . It is a wondrous thing to read laments about how the modern world had lost some of the Christmas magic. At the same time, Irving captures Christmas essences, like families and food and a general spirit of generosity. BTW bought this book at a library book sale.

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    Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving - Randolph Caldecott

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    Washington Irving, by Washington Irving

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    Title: Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

    Author: Washington Irving

    Illustrator: R. Caldecott

    Release Date: February 24, 2007 [EBook #20656]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD CHRISTMAS ***

    Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed

    Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

    produced from images generously made available by The

    Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

    FIFTH EDITION

    The old family mansion, partly thrown in deep shadow, and partly lit up by the cold moonshine

    —Frontispiece.

    Old

    Christmas

    :

    FROM THE

    Sketch Book

    of

    Washington Irving.

    Illustrated by

    R Caldecott

    London.

    Macmillan & Co

    1886

    Before the remembrance of the good old times, so fast passing, should have entirely passed away, the present artist, R. Caldecott, and engraver, James D. Cooper, planned to illustrate Washington Irving's Old Christmas in this manner. Their primary idea was to carry out the principle of the Sketch Book, by incorporating the designs with the text. Throughout they have worked together and con amore. With what success the public must decide.

    November

    1875.

    DESIGNED BY RANDOLPH CALDECOTT,

    AND

    ARRANGED AND ENGRAVED BY J. D. COOPER.

    here is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present. I regret to say that they are daily growing more and more faint, being gradually worn away by time, but still more obliterated by modern fashion. They resemble those picturesque morsels of Gothic architecture which we see crumbling in various parts of the country, partly dilapidated by the waste of ages, and partly lost in the additions and alterations of latter days. Poetry, however, clings with cherishing fondness about the rural game and holiday revel, from which it has derived so many of its themes—as the ivy winds its rich foliage about the Gothic arch and mouldering tower, gratefully repaying their support by clasping together their tottering remains, and, as it were, embalming them in verdure.

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