London & New York: J.M. Dent and Sons / E. P. Dutton, 1928. dj. Hardcover first edition - First US edition issued simultaneously with the UK edition, but with Dutton on the spine of the book and the dustjacket. The dust jacket flap describes this as "An anthology of ballads, chronicles, songs, stories, poems, carols, recipes and anecdotes but (in a tongue-in-cheek aside) omitting Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Good King Wencelas . . and all manifestations of the coloured Christmas supplement." The table of contents lists the items in chronological order, ranging from many early medieval works, some anonymous, to Dean Swift, Ben Johnson and Shakespeare and moving into the more modern era with Hilaire Belloc, Alice Meynell, G.K. Chesterton, Edith Sitwell, and others. With in-text illustrations and music transcriptions by A.C. Harradine, as well as a full color frontispiece. Index of authors and sources. xix; 320 pp. Wraparound dust jacket illustrated by Aubrey Hammond.