IRVING, WASHINGTON. The Works. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons [1901]. 40 vols., 8vo, green morocco, covers with gilt vine borders, floral ornaments at corners, gilt monogram "LR" at center of upper covers, spines in six gilt compartments, turn-ins gilt, red morocco doublures, pale pink silk liners, t.e.g., others uncut, spines faded to brown. LIMITED "JOSEPH JEFFERSON" EDITION, no. 198 of 250 copies, general titles decoratively printed in red and black on Japanese vellum, ornamental text borders printed in bistre, color frontispieces, numerous plates printed on Japanese vellum or mounted China paper, lettered tissue guards, text illustrations, vols. I and II with collotype initial vignettes on mounted China paper; [with] AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY IRVING to Colonel Thomas Aspinwall, London, 12 July 1831, 2 pages, 8vo, integral blank with docket, bound into vol. I, requesting assistance for the son of an old friend, who "has fallen into difficulties in London in consequence of inexperience & ignorance of the world. I will thank you to procure a passage for him on board of one of the first ships bound to New York...". (40)