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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 - 5 (of 5)
Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, February 1907. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue, second impression. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Elegantly rebound in half dark green oasis morocco, tooled in gilt to..... More
Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1905. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges blue;..... More
![Item #65110 Life of George Washington. [The Works of Washington Irving volumes XI to XIV]....](https://harringtonbooks-co-uk.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/65110.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689861199)
Life of George Washington. [The Works of Washington Irving volumes XI to XIV].
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1859. [American Biography] FINELY BOUND. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 12cm), pp.[6] xlviii; 436 [2]; pp.[4] 437-908 [2]; pp.[6] 909-1304 [2]; pp.[4] 1305-1752 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece to volumes I and IV. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to contrasting..... More
Salmagundi. Or, The Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and others.
London: Printed by T. Davison for Thomas Tegg, 1824. [Satire] SECOND UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.viii; 391; [1]. Contemporary brown quarter cloth with gilt titles to a dark red morocco label on the spine, and plain grey paper covered boards. Small label of R. Riviere, bookseller, to front..... More
A History of New York, From the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty. Containing, among many surprising and curious 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 Dutch governers of New Amsterdam; being the only authentic history of the times that hath ever been published.
London: John Bumpus, 1825. [History] Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.xx; 340. Bound in pictorial paper boards, with titles to spine and publisher's advertisements to rear boards, edges uncut. Binding is rubbed and chipped, with a small split to front hinge. Text shows some spotting, particularly to front matter. Very good..... More
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