A humourous 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:

Drexel Institute of Technology Library (bookplate) (donor) (stamp)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xvi, 495 pages : frontispiece ; 23 cm

Edition:

A new edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for W. Wright, 1820.

Notes:

"J. M'Creery, Tooks-Court, Chancery-Lane, London."--T.p. verso.

First issue of the pirated edition of 1820.--Cf. Langfeld, W.R. Washington Irving; a bibliography. New York, 1933. p. 12.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has all preliminary pages prior to the frontispiece wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate and deaccession stamp of Drexel Institute of Technology Library.

Cited in:

Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.), III:72

OCLC:

5295706