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 times that ever hath been or ever will be published / by Diedrich Knickerbocker. In two volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Grolier club, New York, Publications.

Grolier club, New York, Publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

New York (State).

History.

Penn Provenance:

Lamborn, Robert H. (donor)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : frontispieces, illustrations, plates, facsimiles (1 folded) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

New edition containg unpublished corrections of the author, with illustrations by Geo. H. Boughton, Will H. Drake, and Howard Pyle, and etchings by Henry C. Eno and F. Raubicheck.

Place of Publication:

New York : Printed for the Grolier Club, 1886.

Notes:

Frontispieces in three states.

"The Publication Committee of the Grolier Club certify that this copy is one of an edition of 175 copies on Holland paper and 2 copies on vellum, all of which were printed in the month of May, 1886."

Printed list of subscribers, contents, and directions to the binder of the two volumes of Knickerbocker's New York are at the end of v. 2.

"Variorum Readings": v. 2, p. 255-260

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has [1] loose leaf with description written in ms. of this book laid in.

Cited in:

Langfield, W.R. Washington Irving, p. 81

OCLC:

4745487