Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent.    Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1882.

Deluxe edition. One of 500 numbered copies. This being copy no. 413.

Thick quarto. 437 pp., with engraved frontispiece, 24 full-page plates, and 139 engraved text illustrations, all tipped-in. An extra-illustrated copy, with 14 engravings not called for in the list of illustrations. Bound in half red morocco over patterned boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Some light rubbing and soiling to extremities, gutter opposite title over-opened (but sound), half-title partially detached at head, faint damp-staining to top edge throughout. Still a very good copy of this deluxe edition.

First published in 1819, Irving’s The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is a collection of cultural vignettes, exploring early American life and experience. The two most notable short stories appearing in this work are “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip van Winkle” – tales borrowed from the folklore of Europe and rewritten with a distinct American sensibility. The Sketch Book represents Irving’s experimentation with English literary tradition.

Washington Irving (1783-1859) was a novelist, historian, biographer, and essayist. Perhaps his most famous work is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," but he is also known for famous biographies of George Washington and Christopher Columbus. He is commonly regarded as the first American man of letters.

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