IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle, London: William Heinemann, 1907 (third impression). 4, 51 mounted coloured plates by Arthur Rackham (occasional light marginal staining to text), original green pictorial cloth gilt (covers lightly spotted, spine darkened, inner hinges splitting). cf. Latimore & Haskell p.26; Riall p.69.

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IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle, London: William Heinemann, 1907 (third impression). 4, 51 mounted coloured plates by Arthur Rackham (occasional light marginal staining to text), original green pictorial cloth gilt (covers lightly spotted, spine darkened, inner hinges splitting). cf. Latimore & Haskell p.26; Riall p.69.

With 7 other books illustrated by Arthur Rackham including Algenon Charles Swinburne's The Springtide of Life (London, 1918), Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins (London, 1922, with dust-jacket), Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (London, 1928) and Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler (London, 1931), trade editions. (8)

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