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 chivalrous 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:

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Wanamaker, Rodman, 1863-1928 (bookplate)

Wanamaker, John, Jr. (bookplate)

Physical Description:

xxvi, 397 pages : frontispiece, 3 plates ; 16 cm

Other Title:

Knickerbocker's History of New-York, etc. etc.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Thomas Tegg and son, 1836.

Notes:

"London: Bradury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars."--T.p. verso.

The front and plates are signed: G. Cruikshank.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplates of Rodman Wanamaker and John Wanamaker, Jr.

Culture Class Collection copy has [3] loose leaves: 2 are descriptions written in ms., and 1 is a typewritten description, of this book are laid in.

OCLC:

123152405