Accession number
PML 58482-96
Creator
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
Published
New York : G.P. Putnam & Co., 321 Broadway. Nearly opposite Pearl Street., 1855 [-1859]
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. John J. Ide, 1968.
Notes
Imprint title page for vols. 1 and 2, dated 1855. Imprint title page for vol. 3, dated 1856. Imprint tite-page for vol. 4, dated 1857. Imprint title page for vol. 5, dated 1859.
Issued in six formats as follows: Octavo Edition (leaf 9 5/16" tall); Twelvemo Edition (leaf 7 3/8" scant tall); Illustrated Edition (leaf 10 3/4" tall); Large Paper Edition, sometimes referred to as Quarto Edition (leaf 12 13/16" tall); Sunnyside Edition (leaf 7 1/2" tall); Mount Vernon Edition. -- cf. BAL.
"Of the edition in quarto, One hundred and ten copies only are printed. [signed] R. Craighead, Printer." -- on verso of title page.
PML copy is Quarto Edition, no. forty-three. Expanded to 15 volumes through the inclusion of prints and printed/manuscript material. Several volumes are entirely made up of prints, and one is almost entirely Irving's manuscript notes on the text.
Issued in six formats as follows: Octavo Edition (leaf 9 5/16" tall); Twelvemo Edition (leaf 7 3/8" scant tall); Illustrated Edition (leaf 10 3/4" tall); Large Paper Edition, sometimes referred to as Quarto Edition (leaf 12 13/16" tall); Sunnyside Edition (leaf 7 1/2" tall); Mount Vernon Edition. -- cf. BAL.
"Of the edition in quarto, One hundred and ten copies only are printed. [signed] R. Craighead, Printer." -- on verso of title page.
PML copy is Quarto Edition, no. forty-three. Expanded to 15 volumes through the inclusion of prints and printed/manuscript material. Several volumes are entirely made up of prints, and one is almost entirely Irving's manuscript notes on the text.
Description
5 volumes, 22 unnumbered leaves of plates (expanded to 15 volumes) : maps, portraits, facsimile ; 31.5 cm
Provenance
William Hartmann Woodin (1868-1934), bookplate; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Dora Donner (Mrs. John J.) Ide, Jan. 1968.
Binding
19th/early 20th-century French gilt tooled red morocco with American patriotic tooling, by Taffin.
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