Book ID: 15662

Rip Van Winkle

Irving, Washington; Arthur Rackham (illustrator)

London: Heinemann, 1919. Later Printing.. Leather.

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Binding Type: LeatherEdition: Later Printing.Catalogues: ,

xii + 62 pp. plus plates. Brown leather with gilt title lettering and cover vignette; spine lettering gilt; top edge gilt; bookmark sewn in. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 52 colourplates tipped in. Spine slightly faded and rubbed, and some rubbing to extemities, with one interior join cracked but firm. Departs from the usual practice of interleaving the colourplates with the text by binding all plates, except frontispiece, into rear section, hors text on heavier stock paper in green (hence the cracked join where the two weights of paper are bound together).

Book ID 15662
Publisher Heinemann
Publisher Place London
Publisher Year 1919
Size Large 8vo
Language English