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The Book of Christmas Thomas K. Hervey
A Letter from the Honourable Thomas Hervey to the Late King is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1763. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Thomas Hervey's The Book of Christmas is remembered today for the wonderful illustrations by Robert Seymour (1798-1836), one of the most successful caricaturists of his time. Hervey's text gives an exhaustive historical account of old English Christmas customs: some - like the feasting on roast beef and turkey, plum pudding and mince pies - still flourishing; others - like waits (carol singing at night) and mumming - almost forgotten. Seymour's illustrations, completed just a few months before his suicide as he was working on Dickens's Pickwick Papers, capture the spirit and joy of the season. From the coach load of Norfolk turkeys, to the sleepy waits singers in the light of the street lant...
Letter-books; With Sir Thomas Hervey's letters during courtship and poems during widowhood - Vol. 1: 1651 to 1750 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.