An old-fashioned Christmas, packaged in beautiful illustrations and music.The sights and sounds of Christmases past come to life in this beautiful gift book. With foil, embossing, and a rich, saturated four-color interior full of classic Victorian images, "A Victorian Christmas" is perfect as a gift eager for a coffee table to adorn with its winsome design. Inside, readers are greeted by inscriptions from postcards and Christmas cards, poems and prose from the early twentieth century, and the accompanying CD lends soft, simple Christmas songs performed by acclaimed mandolinist Butch Baladassari. The result is an experience of Christmas from a bygone era, a unique way to say "Merry Christmas."