The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. : No. I[-VII].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

Contributor:

Westall, Richard, 1765-1836

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

Books in Parts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.)--Fiction.

Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.).

Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Fiction.

Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.).

England--Description and travel.

England.

Genre:

Advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century.

Illustrated books.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Livingston, C. (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Sleight, Mary B. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Stone, E. L. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Leavitt, Eliza H. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Zinman, Michael (donor) (Zinman copy 1, 2 & 3)

Butler, Ann (autograph) (Zinman copy 1)

Milligan, John J. (autograph) (Zinman copy 1)

Barrett, Clifton Waller, 1901- (bookplate) (Zinman copy 2)

Ellis, John (autograph) (Zinman copy 2)

Chadeayne, Elizabeth C. (autograph) (Zinman copy 2)

Physical Description:

2 volumes in 7 parts ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New-York : Printed by C.S. Van Winkle, 1819-1820.

Notes:

Written by Washington Irving.--Cf. Halkett & Laing.

First published from May 1819 to Sept. 1820, simultaneously in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, in seven numbers, no. I-V with imprint date 1819 and continuous paging, no. VI and VII with imprint date 1820 and separate paging.

Parts issued in paper wrappers, some printed with publisher's advertisements.

Imprint on wrappers varies: nos. 3-4 each has "C.S. Van Winkle, printer, 101 Greenwich-street"; nos. 6-7 each has "Published by Haly and Thomas, New-York, and M. Thomas, Philadelphia."

Local Notes:

Zinman copies 1, 2 and 3 presented to the Penn Libraries by Michael Zinman.

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 1 imperfect: no. 2 wanting; no. 1 disbound; no. 5 wanting wrappers; no. 3 wanting p. 201-204 and back wrapper.

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 1 has 1 photocopied leaf of bibliographic information (The complete works of Washington Irving, ed. Richard Dilworth Rust, 1989, v. 30, p. 122-123) laid in.

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 1: no. 1 has bookseller's ms. note in pencil on verso of front free endpaper; title leaf torn and mended near inner margin; engraved title leaf from another work ("Illustrations of The sketch book, from designs by R. Westall ... London, published by Robert Jennings, 1825") laid in; extra-illustrated with 2 plates "[d]rawn by R. Westall ... Engraved by Chas. Heath ... London, published by Robert Jennings ... 1824."

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 1: no. 3 has p. 203-204 from another copy laid in after p. 200; a few marginal ms. notes in pencil.

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 1: no. 5 has 1 leaf of publisher's advertisements ("M. Thomas ... Philadelphia") inserted at beginning of book.

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 1: no. 6 has front wrapper torn off at top outer corner with loss of price and reinforced with a blank leaf; first 2 leaves torn off and mended at top margin; front wrapper and p. 1-38 dampstained at top margin; title leaf has author's name supplied in ms. in pencil and autograph ("Ann Butler") in ink.

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 1: no. 7 has autograph ("John J. Milligan") on front wrapper; ms. bibliographic note in pencil laid in; author's name supplied in ms. in pencil on title leaf; 1 leaf of publisher's advertisements ("M. Thomas, agent, 108 Chesnut Street") inserted at beginning of book.

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 2 imperfect: RBC has nos. 3, 6-7 only; p. 57-94 from no. 1, p. 129-130 from no. 2 and p. 173-208 from no. 3 laid in.

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 2 has 1 photocopied leaf of bibliographic information (The complete works of Washington Irving, ed. Richard Dilworth Rust, 1989, v. 30, p. 122-123) laid in.

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 2: no. 3 has a second copy of p. 203-210 inserted between p. 210 and p. 211; colored bookplate affixed to inside front wrapper; ms. inscriptions in pencil on front free endpaper and title leaf.

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 2: no. 6 has autograph on front wrapper; ms. inscriptions in pencil on title leaf and back free endpaper.

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 2: detached p. 57-94 from no. 1 has ms. inscription in pencil on p. 57 and ms. initials ("E.C.C.") on p. 59; detached p. 129-130 from no. 2 has a couple of marginal ms. inscriptions on p. 129; detached p. 173-208 from no. 3 has autograph and ms. inscriptions in pencil on p. 173.

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 3 imperfect: RBC has no. 6 only; top portion of front wrapper torn off and wanting.

Penn Libraries Zinman copy 3 has ms. inscription in pencil on title leaf.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has autograph of Mary B. Sleight.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has stamp of C. Livingston.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 is bound in one volume.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 imperfect: no. VII wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has same imprint on all t.p.: New-York, Printed by C.S. Van Winkle, 101 Greenwich Street. The date varies: nos. I and V have 1819, nos. II, III, IV and VI have 1820.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has autograph of E.L. Stone "from Mother".

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has written bookplate of Eliza H. Leavitt, "once the property of my dear brother J".

Culture Class Collection copy has marginal marks.

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker, 48355

BAL, 10106

Langfeld, W.R. Irving (1968 ed.), p. 15-22

Blanck, J. Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 143

Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.) V, 281

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 1430

OCLC:

17615328