Synopsis
Many years ago we published an illustrated alphabet book using a rhyme by Carolyn Wells. It has sold well every Christmas since that first publication but recently Welleran Poltarnees - our master of illustration reviewed his work and decided that, with our amplified resources and improvements in the art of color scanning and printing, he could do a better job. We told him to go ahead, and here we present his new version, and at a reduced retail price that we think will make it even more saleable. Some of the Christmas themes depicted are: bells, gifts, stars, ice, holly, wreaths, and reindeer. Artists include Willy Pogany, H.C. Leyendecker, Palmer Cox, Maginel Wright Barney, James Montgomery Flagg and Frances Tipton Hunter.
Publishers Weekly
With as much appeal for adults as for children, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Christmas ABC, beautifully bound for gift-giving, pairs text based on a poem by Carolyn Wells with early-20th-century lithographs by students at Vienna's Wiener Werkstutte.