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Irving, Washington.
Essays and Sketches.
Publisher: Charles Tilt, London;
Date of Publication: 1837
Stock Code: 14627
Sixteenmo in half-sheets, pp., vi, 222, [6] publishers advertisements, plus engraved frontispiece. Black full morocco elegant in gilt, titled in gilt to spine, all edges gilt. Book label of Pamela and Raymond Lister to front paste-down. Rubbing to spine-tips and corners, slight wear to joints. Contents clean and bright. A near-fine copy. Washington Irving was the first American Man of Letters, and the first American to earn his living solely by his pen. Published while Irving was alive, this volume reprints twenty-six of Irving’s essays on American life, history, landscape, and character in a compact and attractive form. The former owner, Raymond Lister (1919-2001) was an English artistic ironworker and artist, as well as a scholarly authority of English Romantic art. £200.00