Agoura Hills, CA: [Barbara J. Raheb] Pennyweight Press, 1993. 32 pp. Approximately 5/8 x 15/16". LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies, this being #8. Red pyroxylin with gilt titles on spine and cover, previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper, marbled endpapers, illustrated, signed and numbered on the colophon, in fine condition. (Bradbury, Barbara J. Raheb, 452)

Written by George Robert Sims (1847 - 1922), and English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist, and bon vivant, Christmas Day in the Worklhouse is a dramatic monologue written as a ballad, first published in "The Referee" in 1877. It is a criticism of the harsh conditions in English and Welsh workhouses under the 1834 Poor Law. (Wikipedia)