Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by: Washington Irving

Hardcover. Tarrytown NY, Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1st thus, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, oblong format, 128 pages. The text for this handsome new edition is based upon the Author's Revised Edition of 1848. In 1848, the American Art Union published a special edition of Rip Van Winkle for its members with six illustrations designed and etched by Felix O. C. Darley (1822-1888), the Philadelphia-born artist whose work had already been seen and enjoyed by a very wide American public. In the following year six new Darley illustrations for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow were published in a similar special edition. These twelve are the high point in illustrations for Irving's works. This volume reproduces for the first time all twelve illustrations with coloring of the plates by Fritz Kredel. Clean copy.