A truly amazing set of 89 illustrations from 21 different vintage editions of "The Night Before Christmas," set to the original text from the Dec 23, 1823 Troy Sentinel. The editions range from 1840 to 1918, and a reference list collects the illustrations by artists such as: Thomas Nast, Margaret Evans Price, Sarah Noble Ives, W.W. Denslow, Gladys Hall, Jesse Wilcox Smith, F.J.E., Eleanora Madsen, A.E. Kennedy, John R. Neill, Alfred Fredericks, William T. Smedley Hugo von Hofsten and Howard E. Altemus. A biography of Henry Livingston tells the story of Henry and the quest of the Livingston family to prove Henry's authorship, in language suitable for reading to children.This new edition celebrates the two year long research of Professor Emeritus MacDonald Jackson, who investigated the conflicting claims of Clement Moore and Henry Livingston using statistical analysis. By delving deep into the numbers that can be pulled out of the unconscious characteristics of a writer's style, such as frequency of words and even how the tongue and lips move, Jackson was able to conclude that the style of "The Night Before Christmas" matches the style of Henry Livingston, rather than that of Clement Moore.