NMLP P-044403 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

A Visit from St. Nicholas (The Night Before Christmas)

Clement C. Moore · Henry M. Onderdonk (New York) · 1848

The 1848 Onderdonk is a humble square chapbook of sixteen pages, cheaply bound in a paper wrapper lettered "Santa Claus," illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Theodore C. Boyd — the first time the poem carried a full suite of illustrations as a book in its own right

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044403 for "A Visit from St. Nicholas (The Night Before Christmas)" by Clement C. Moore (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044403, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).