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The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent
Title
The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent.
Edition
The author's revised edition.
Publication
New York ; London : George P. Putnam, 1849.
Manufacture
New York : Leavitt, Trow, & Co., Printers and Stereotypers
Copyright Notice Date
©1848
Physical Description
xii, 465 pages ; 20 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Tanselle Z22 0430: Publisher's catalog dated November 1848 at end.
Notes
Includes added series titlepage.
Summary
"This delightful selection of stories and essays was written by Irving under the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.," and was popular both in America and abroad. In Rip Van Winkle, the title character and Catskill native falls asleep before the American Revolution and awakes 20 years later in the newly formed nation, which seems, in many ways, similar to the colonies of old. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow tells of self-satisfied schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, who is chased out of Sleepy Hollow (and Katrina Van Tassel's embraces) by the headless horseman - and is now rumored to have become a politician. Essay selections focus largely on Irving's observations of England from an American perspective"--Publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. Sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. [pseud.]. The author's rev. ed. New York, G.P. Putnam, 1849
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
The works of Washington Irving : New edition, revised ; v. 2
Contents
Preface to the revised edition
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 bookmaking
A royal poet
The country church
The widow and her son
A Sunday in London
The boar's head tavern, Eastcheap
The mutability of literature
Rural funerals
The inn kitchen
The specter bridegroom
Westminster Abbey Christmas
The stagecoach
Christmas eve
Christmas day
The Christmas dinner
London antiques
Little Britain
Stratford on Avon
Traits Of Indian character
Philip of Pokanoket
John Bull
The pride of the village
The angler
The legend of Sleepy Hollow
L'envoi
Appendix
Afterword.
References
Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 10165
Subjects
Genre/Form
Fiction.
History.
Publishers’ advertisements.
Publishers’ catalogs.
Also listed under
Leavitt, Trow & Co., printer, stereotyper.
United States New York (State) New York.
England London.
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