Accession number
PML 88840
Published
New York : G.P. Putnam & Sons, Association Building, 23d Street, 1871.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
Collection of short papers and poems, some published in Putnam's Magazine.
Geoffrey Bryant, Geoffrey Crayon, and Diedrich Knickerbocker are pseudonyms of Washington Irving.
Numerous engraved illustrations, including frontispiece portrait and vignettes, designed and some signed by Saml. Lawrence, Darley, Casilear, Döpler, Huntington, Bellows, Hows, Hoppin, Chapman, Wm Hart, J.D. Smillie, D. Pler, Shattuck, and Nast.
The engravings are variously signed by the following engravers: H.B. Hall, John Andre, J.W. Orr, J.W. Orr & Andrew, Richardson, Bobbett & Edmonds, Herrick, and Childs & Jocelyn.
"Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by G.P. Putnam & Sons, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington"--verso of t.p.
"The New York Printing Company, 81, 83, and 85 Centre St., New York"--verso of t.p.
"Geo. W. Alexander Binder New York"--label inside lower cover.
Engraved frontispiece port. of George Curtis after a painting by Samuel Lawrence, including a facsimile of Curtis' signature: "Yours very truly G.W. Curtis", engraved by H.B. Hall.
Geoffrey Bryant, Geoffrey Crayon, and Diedrich Knickerbocker are pseudonyms of Washington Irving.
Numerous engraved illustrations, including frontispiece portrait and vignettes, designed and some signed by Saml. Lawrence, Darley, Casilear, Döpler, Huntington, Bellows, Hows, Hoppin, Chapman, Wm Hart, J.D. Smillie, D. Pler, Shattuck, and Nast.
The engravings are variously signed by the following engravers: H.B. Hall, John Andre, J.W. Orr, J.W. Orr & Andrew, Richardson, Bobbett & Edmonds, Herrick, and Childs & Jocelyn.
"Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by G.P. Putnam & Sons, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington"--verso of t.p.
"The New York Printing Company, 81, 83, and 85 Centre St., New York"--verso of t.p.
"Geo. W. Alexander Binder New York"--label inside lower cover.
Engraved frontispiece port. of George Curtis after a painting by Samuel Lawrence, including a facsimile of Curtis' signature: "Yours very truly G.W. Curtis", engraved by H.B. Hall.
Description
[2], 133, [1] : ill. (engravings) ; 26 x 18 cm
Provenance
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's pictorial brown sand-grain cloth, blocked in gold and black; with beveled edges and light-purple end-papers.
Classification
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