Broadside Sheet printed on one side, typically for public display, usually larger than folio size (a folio being a broadside-size sheet printed on both sides and folded once, to make four pages). 
Book-Plate Label, generally affixed to the front pastedown, identifying a book’s owner. Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book. “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound. Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper. Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book. Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms. Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid. Nicholas passed through the crucible of Doctor Clement Clarke Moores mind and imagination did the patron saint of childhood ever ride in a sleigh, or have eight tiny reindeer Nor was he dressed in furs, nor did he smoke a pipe, nor did he ever get into the homes of good little boys and girls by going down chimneys" (Grolier American 100, 52). A house guest copied it in the fall of 1823, and later sent her copy to the editor of the Troy Sentinel, where it was first published, anonymously, DecemThe authorship was first disclosed in the Troy Budget, DecemNot until St. "Moore, a professor of Hebrew, wrote the poem in 1822 as a Christmas gift for his children. A very sharp copy of this important work. Moore’s Poems is much rarer than The New-York Book of Poetry and is the desired first edition, as it contains only Moore’s poems. The first appearance of the poem in book form was in an anthology, The New-York Book of Poetry published in 1834. Nicholas” (“Twas the Night Before Christmas”). 
Contains the first appearance of Moore’s famous poem “A Visit from St. Gilt tooling to the front and rear panel, all edges gilt.
Octavo, full red morocco binding, gilt titles on to the spine. Poems (Including “Twas the Night Before Christmas”)įirst edition.
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