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 governors of New Amsterdam : being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been published / By Diedrich Knickerbocker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

Contributor:

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (State)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

New York (State).

History.

Penn Provenance:

Long, Walter, 1793-1867 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

xxxii pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 33 unnumbered pages-520 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

A new edition.

Other Title:

Knickerbocker's New York

Place of Publication:

London : J. Murray, 1820.

Notes:

"London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars."--Colophon.

"The above is accepted as the first English edition, although it states 'A new edition' on the title-page. It was published in one volume and follows the text of the second American edition."--Cf. Langfield.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Walter Long.

Cited in:

Langfield, W.R. Washington Irving a bibliography, p. 12

OCLC:

4745504