Released on: 19, March 2007
, Author: Rosemary McKittrick
, Audience: Internet related
March 19, 2007--With a sigh of relief the Christmas season cameto a close for most of us. A sweet ending for some. A sad ending for others.
For Christmas collector Jock Elliott, the season lingered all year round. Elliottspent 50 years collecting Christmas ephemera, mostly books.
From throw a ways to the truly rare, Elliott collected books on Christmastraditions, customs and every imaginable story, poem, and carol related to theYuletide. He even owned Charles Dickens's reading copy of  A Christmas Carol.Â
You might call him a Christmas connoisseur. A custodian of holiday lore.
Born in Manhattan in 1921, Elliott began his career in 1945 as a copywriter at BBDOadvertising agency. After 15 years, he went to work for Ogilvy & Mather where heultimately rose to chairman.
His vocation may have been advertising, but his avocation was clearly bookcollecting. Friends often asked him how many Christmas books he owned.
Elliott never really counted, but he had more than 3,000 first editions. Nor wasthe collection private.
He shared portions of the motherload through exhibitions at the Widener Library, thePierpoint Morgan Library, the Century Association, Harvard and the Grolier Club.
 I love Christmas, he said.  I am sure it all goes back to my childhoodChristmases, which were made magical by both my parents, but particularly by mymother.Â
Jock Elliott died at age 84 in 2005. The Christmas collector was called one of themost significant advertising account managers of the 20th century.
Over the years, he apologized for his  silly habit of collecting books with theword Christmas in the title. Ultimately, it may very well be these  silly booksfor which he is most fondly remembered. On Dec. 12, SothebyÂ's, New York, featuredThe Christmas Collection of Jock Elliott on the block.
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Source: Express-Press-Release.com
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