CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS - A Treasury of Christmas Lore

New York: Taplinger Publishing, 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo. 111 pp. Quarter-bound in red on green boards; lettered in white on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white drawings. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket with a small rubbed patch on the upper right of the front panel and a short, closed tear in the lower left of the front panel; price clipped; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction; Christmas Time; All Hallows Eve - 31 October; The Lord of Misrule; The Mummers Play; Stir Up Sunday; Christmas Puddings and Cakes; Christmas Cards; The Feast of St Nicholas - 6 December; St Nicholas or Santa Claus; Boy Bishops; Good King Wenceslas; St Thomas's Day - 21 December; The Traditions of St Thomas's Day; Wassailing; Boar's Heads; Christmas Eve - 24 December; The Yule Log; Dumb Cakes; Christmas Decorations; Mistletoe; The Christmas Tree; The Kissing Bough; The Crib; The Old Lad's Passing Bell; Christmas Day - 25 December; Midnight Mass; Sowen Cakes and Candles; Christmas Food; The Christmas Turkey; Christmas Pudding; Mince Pies; Christmas Crackers; Christmas Presents; Christmas Games; The Years that Christmas Did Not Come; Boxing Day - 26 December; Christmas Boxes; St Stephen; Wren Hunting; Grey Mary or Mari Lwyd; Hodening; Christmas Masques and Pantomimes; St John's Day and Holy Innocents Day - 27 and 28 December; The Twelve Days of Christmas; St John's Day; Holy Innocents Day or Childermas; New Year's Eve and New Year's Day - 31 December and 1 January; New Year's Eve or Hogmanay; First Footing; New Year's Day; Old Christmas Eve and Twelfth Night - 5 and 6 January; Old Christmas Eve; Fruit Tree Wassailing; Epiphany or Twelfth Night; The Glastonbury Thorn; Distaff Day or Plough Monday; Distaff Day - 7 January; and Plough Monday; followed by an index..