Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving

Entry/Object ID

2017.11.24

Description

Bound for Beauty #88 xi, 218 p. : 53 ill.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1890s

Dimensions

Height

27 cm

Book Details

Author

Washington Irving

Illustrator

George Henry Boughton

Edition

First

Publisher

Macmillan & Company

Place Published

City

London

Country

England

Date Published

1893

Printer

Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd.

Place Printed

City

London

Country

England

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series

Binding Notes

Bound in dark green cloth with marvelous art nouveau gilt decoration and titles to spine and front cover featuring poppies and thistle. Green stone endpapers. All edges gilt.

Notes

Owner's bookplate to ffep: Grace M. Pugh. Handwritten owner's name on half title: Russell. Bookbinders ticket to rear: Bound by Burns & Co.

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection