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Irving, Washington.
Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1893
Stock Code: 14435
First thus. Octavo, pp., xi, [3], 218. Fifty-three illustrations by George H. Boughton including frontispiece with tissue guard, many of which are full-page. Publishers’ dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine with floral design blocked in gilt to upper board. All edges gilt. An approximately 5mm tear to the head of the spine, minor discolouration to boards. Minor foxing to the end-papers and title-page, otherwise a solid, clean copy. The first edition with Boughton’s illustrations. The workshy Rip Van Winkle meets a mysterious Dutchman, drinks his strong liquor and falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution. In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, intends to woo Katrina Van Tassel, to gain her family’s wealth. Unable to goad Ichabod into fighting for Katrina's hand, another suitor wages a campaign of harassment against the schoolmaster, plaguing him with a series of pranks and practical jokes. These two of Irving’s best-known tales bound together are among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity. £250.00