The Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore & Arthur Rackham

The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore L.L.D. & Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

With twenty-six pages of illustrations including four full-color plates

Once again the incomparable Arthur Rackham joins with one of the world's great storytellers to produce a book that is indispensable to any child's bookshelf.

The illustrator of eighty-six major volumes here makes full use of the combination of whimsy, fantasy and descriptive genius that has been making him a household word for a new age during this Arthur Rackham revival.

As he did with Charles and Mary Lamb, Jonathan Swift, The Brothers Grimm, Richard Henry Dana, Washington Irving, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Aesop, Mother Goose, Charles Dickens and others, Rackham makes it difficult to believe that classics were classics before his pen and his colors spun his magic onto their pages.

A man with a modesty to match his genius, Rackham was possessed of a sense of humor that gently pervaded many of his illustrations. It is he matching twinkling smiles with Santa before the hearth in the frontispiece, and again he springing "from the bed to see what was the matter," surveying the dreamland that he, the master fantasist, created.