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The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, esq. / (Washington Irving.)
LIBRA PS2066 .A1 1836
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC8 Ir844 819s 1836
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
- Series:
- Collection of ancient and modern British authors ; v. 99.
- Collection of ancient and modern British authors ; v. 99
- 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:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dunton, W. R. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 365 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Baudry's European library. Sold also by Amyot; Truchy; Theophile Barrois, Jun.; Librairie des Étrangers; and Heideloff and Campe, 1836.
- Contents:
- Memoir of Washington Irving
- The author's account of himself
- The voyage
- Roscoe
- The wife
- Rip Van Winkle
- English writers on America
- Rural life in England
- The broken heart
- The art of book-making
- A royal poet
- The country church
- The widow and her son
- The Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap
- The mutability of literature
- Rural funerals
- The inn kitchen
- The spectre bridegroom
- Westminster Abbey
- Christmas
- The stage coach
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas Day
- The Christmas dinner
- Little Britain
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Traits of Indian character
- Philip of Pokanoket, an Indian memoir
- John Bull
- The pride of the village
- The angler
- The legend of Sleepy Hollow
- L'Envoy.
- Notes:
- "Printed by J. Smith, 16, Rue Montmorency."--Verso of series t.p.
- Publisher's advertisements (1 leaf) verso of series t.p.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of W.R. Dunton, Apr. 24, 1856.
- Cited in:
- BAL, 10295
- OCLC:
- 2637693
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