Boyhood of Christ, Harper's December 1886, Saint Nicholas

ORIGINAL EDITION Publisher-Printing Location:Â Harper & Brothers, New York Date and Numbering: December, 1886 Volume LXXIV, Number CCCCXXXIX Size and Page Count: 6.5" X 10" Tall, 238 pages Condition: Good+, binding good, cover has flaking at spine and some age yellowing, foxing, address label on front cover, some small tears

Illustrations Information: 54 engravings ----An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian----
Articles and Information:

• When Christmas Comes Frontispiece from Edwin A. Abbey
• Poem: Sally in our Alley -By Henry Carey
• The Boyhood of Christ -By Lew Wallace with illustrations by Alfred Bramtot and Sue O. Merson engraved by King, Muller, Grimley,Davis, Reid:- Initial L. , Angles watching over Child Jesus, Mary teaching Jesus the Alphabet, Listening for Voices, On the Way to Jerusalem In the Nazareth Synagogne
• Poem: The Legend of Saint Nicholas -By Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer with illustrations by Mary L. Gow, engraved by Wellington and French: Beggar Mother, they Led St. Nicholas to the Chamber of the Dead, Round the Knight a Golden Shower did PourLa Mere Venus.
• An out-door study-By George Henry Boughton with illustrations by G.H.Boughton engraved by Dodenstab: Initial I, Virginie and Julie, one of my visitors, Mothers bring polished and combed Babies, on his good behavior, The Cronies
• Poem: Inasmuch -By Wallace Bruce with illustration by A. B. Front engraved by Tinkey Polly.
• A Christmas Recollection -By Thomas Nelson Page with illustrations by E.W.Kenble engraved by Stewart and Delorme
• The Mouse-Trap. A Farce -By William Dean Howells with illustrations by C.S.Reinhart
• The White Garden -By Harriet Lewis Bradley with illustrations by Alfred Fredericks
• Poem: The Legend of Frey Bernardo -By Richard Henry Stoddard with illustrations by Frederic Dielman engraved by Wolf
• Wood notes -By W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson with illustrations by W.H.Gibson: Wood interior, Strategy of the Chewink, Nest of the Veery, Bumblebee's Charge, Interesting Tramp, Keys to Buried Treasure
• The King of Folly Island -By Sarah Orne Jewett with illustrations by Frederic Dielman engraved by Putnam and Faber
• Poem: The Cup of death -By Louise Chandler Moulton with ilustration by Elihu Vedder engraved by Frank French
• Blind Willy -By B.L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
• Beryl's happy thought. A Thanksgiving story -By Blanche Willis Howard
• Editor's easy chair
• Editor's drawer/Poem: Coquetry's argument -By C.H. Thayer
• Sitting down with a preacher -By Pet R. O'leum
• Editor's drawer/Poem: Rhyme of a By Archibald
  Editor's drawer/Article: Homesick horse
• An editor's mistake
• Governor Randolph -By John S.(John Shelton) Patton
• Editor's drawer/Poem : Der oak und der vine -By Charles Follen Adams
• Illustration: Precedence at Bonnebouche Hall during the holidays -By George Du Maurier
• Literary notes -By Laurence Hutton