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Washington Irving | First Editions
1783 - 1859
See below our stock of Washington Irving First Editions, fine bindings, sets, and signed copies.Results 1 - 9 (of 9)
Rip Van Winkle. Illustratied by Frank T. Merrill.
London: John MacQueen 1899. FIRST EDITION THUS. With many in-text illustrations and several fine photograhic plates of Kaatskill (Catskills) Mountains and creeks; printed with captions on thick paper, with tissue guards. Illustrated title printed in red and black with sepia background. Elegantly hand-bound in full green oasis morocco, spine with... More
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
London: George G. Harrap, 1928. [Children's illustrated] First Rackham Edition. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.103; [1]. With eight colour plates and numerous black and white line drawings in-text. Elegantly bound in dark green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to spine, having retained the publisher's original green... More
Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1905. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), with 51 mounted colour plates bound together after the text. Bound in dark green morocco over original green cloth boards with gilt design to upper. Very light spotting, plates clean without creases. Near fine. Set in Sleepy Hollow, Irving's... More
A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.
London: John Murray, 1828. [Colonial History]. FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. In four volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] xii; 473 [7]; pp.[12] 490 [6]; pp.[2] viii; 413 [5]; pp.[2] viii; 489 [5]. With two large folding maps. In contemporary green calf boards, re-backed to style in green calf with gilt... More
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1928. First Rackham Edition. Quarto. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front board, gilt titles to spine; pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. 8 illustrations in colour and in text line drawing. With bookseller's ticket. Binding shows well, bumped... More
Bracebridge Hall.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1925. Octavo. Bound by Riviere in red morroco, gilt panelling to front board, raised bands, gilt decoration and gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, gilt dentelles, corner edges of boards and top and tail of spine decorated with gilt. Binding is tight, and all gilt... More
A History of New York, From the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty. Containing, among many surprising and curous matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the three Ductch governers of New Amsterdam; being the only authentic history of the times that hath ever been published.
London: John Bumpus, 1825. Duodecimo. Bound in pictorial paper boards, with titles to spine and publisher's advertisements to rear boards, edges uncut. Binding is rubbed, with tear to front hinge. Text shows some spotting, particularly to front matter. A curious volume of satirical anecdotes of old New York. More
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1859. Octavo. Bound in contemporary full blue calf, gilt ruling to boards, with raised bands, brown label and extra gilt to spine; all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece. Binding shows some wear to extremities and spine ends, some scuffs to boards. Foxed to... More
Rip Van Winkle.
London; Heinemann. 1905. First Rackham Edition. Quarto. 51 mounted colour plates. Publisher's original green cloth boards with gilt pictorial title to upper. Scuffing and rubbing to extremities, some fraying at spine ends. A little bumping here and there with some light foxing to prelims. Essentially a very good copy of... More
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