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colour around each page. Two volumes. Volume I has 294 numbered pages, and one illustration by Arthur Rackham; volume II has 315 numbered pages, and two illustrations by Arthur Rackham. The size of the page is 6⅞×10⅛. Limited to 175 sets, signed by the publishers. Proofs on Japan paper, and many illustrations by various artists. Although the date on the title page is 1895, on the page giving the number of copies it reads “Autumn of 1894.”
VAN TASSEL EDITION/THE SKETCH-BOOK/OF/GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT./[quotation]/BY/WASHINGION IRVING/VOLUME I [II]/G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS/NEW YORK LONDON/27 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET 24 BEDFORD STREET, THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS/1895.
Bound in white cloth with an elaborate design in gold stamped on the cover and spine, and gold lettering, with a light blue design in the border. Two volumes. Volume I has 294 numbered pages, and two illustrations by Arthur Rackham; volume II has 315 numbered pages, and two illustrations by Arthur Rackham. The size of the page is 6×8¾. There is another binding of this same edition in dark blue cloth with the same gold stamping, but with a white medallion in the center of the cover and the title in gold on the medallion. Both editions have gilt tops. There is one more illustration by Arthur Rackham in this edition than in either the Holly or the Westminster Editions. These illustrations are not on Japan paper.
TALES OF/A/TRAVELLER/BY/WASHINGTON IRVING/[quotation]/BUCKTHORNE EDITION/VOLUME I [II]/NEW YORK & LONDON/G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS/1895.
Bound in light blue cloth with pictorial stamping in gold and green on cover and spine, and lettering in black; gilt top. Two volumes. Volume I has 316 numbered pages, and two illustrations in half-tone by Arthur Rackham; volume II has 312
