The Night Before Christmas is a popular name for Clement C. Moore's Christmas poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas".
Bibliographic notesThe poem was first published, anonymously, in the Troy (NY) Sentinel in 1823. It was included in Moore's 1844 book of poems, and has also been published in many standalone illustrated editions since its first publication.
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Poems (New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1844), by Clement Clarke MooreCollection of the author's poetry that includes A Visit From St. Nicholas.
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- A Visit from St. Nicholas (early newspaper, book, and manuscript editions), by Clement Clarke Moore, illust. by T. C. Boyd (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- A Visit from Saint Nicholas (New York: J. G. Gregory, c1862), by Clement Clarke Moore, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley
- A Visit From St. Nicholas (Boston: L. Prang and Co., c1864), by Clement Clarke Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Night Before Christmas (Father Tuck's Nursery Tales series; London et al.: R. Tuck and Sons, ca. 1901), by Clement Clarke Moore (page images at Florida)
- Denslow's Night Before Christmas (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1902), by Clement Clarke Moore, illust. by W. W. Denslow (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Twas the Night Before Christmas: A Visit from Saint Nicholas (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1912), by Clement Clarke Moore, illust. by Jessie Willcox Smith
- A Visit From St. Nicholas (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921), by Clement Clarke Moore, illust. by Florence Wyman Ivins
- The Night Before Christmas: A Spoken Song or Recitation (Boston: The Boston Music Co., c1923), by Clement Clarke Moore and Hanna Van Vollenhoven, illust. by Grace G. Drayton (page images at Baylor). A musical setting with drawings.
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