Author: Washington Irving
Title: Bracebridge Hall or the Humourists
Description: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1896. Cloth. A very smart edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham of this episodic novel from American author Washington Irving. Complete in two volumes. Surrey edition. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and thirteen plates. Collated complete. An episodic novel written while the author was in England, originally published under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. The work contains a collection of location-based tales and character sketches, with a number of individual plots, centering on the occupants of an English manner near Birmingham. Written by Washington Irving, an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat. With many plates designed by Arthur Rackham, an English book illustrator recognised as one of the leading figures of the Golden Age of British book illustration. In the original full blue cloth binding with gilt. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and the odd very small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the extremities and the odd small spot. A light mark to the frontispiece of volume one. Surrey County Library ink stamp to the title page and edition page. Very Good . Ill.: Arthur Rackham; Various. Very Good .

Keywords: Bracebridge Hall Humourists Irving Hall Arthur Rackham; Various


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