Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1st edition by Washington Irving (1974) Hardcover - Hardcover

Washington Irving

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0912882093 ISBN 13: 9780912882093

Publisher: Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1974

Synopsis

From dust jacket notes: "Each succeeding generation discovers anew the warmth and fantasy in these delightful stories. They are Washington Irving's best pieces from THE SKETCH BOOK,first published in 1819-1820, and considered by many to be the best he ever wrote. The text for this handsome new edition is based upon the Author's Revised Edition of 1848....In 1848, the American Art Union published a special edition of Rip Van Winkle for its members with six illustrations designed and etched by Felix O. C. Darley (1822-1888), the Philadelphia-born artist whose work had already been seen and enjoyed by a very wide American public. In the following year six new Darley illustrations for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow were published in a similar special edition. These twelve are the high point in illustrations for Irving's works. This volume reproduces for the first time all twelve illustrations in full color. The six pictures for Rip Van Winkle are from the collection of Sleepy Hollow Restorati

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains one day and meets some strange old men. He comes home twenty years later. One dark night, Ichabod Crane is riding home and sees a man on a black horse behind him. The man has no head. Are there ghosts in these stories? What do you think?

About the Author:

Washington Irving, one of the first Americans to achieve international recognition as an author, was born in New York City in 1783. His A History of New York, published in 1809 under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker, was a satirical history of New York that spanned the years from 1609 to 1664. Under another pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, he wrote The Sketch-book, which included essays about English folk customs, essays about the American Indian, and the two American stories for which he is most renowned--"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Irving served as a member of the U.S. legation in Spain from 1826 to 1829 and as minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846. Following his return to the U.S. in 1846, he began work on a five-volume biography of Washington that was published from 1855-1859. Washington Irving died in 1859 in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sleepy Hollow Restorations
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0912882093
• ISBN 13: 9780912882093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 126
• Illustrator: Felix O. C. Darley