The Sketch Book, and Christmas

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1888. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Duncan, John G. Minor wear to corners with a couple lightly faded spots on rear board, small embossed stationer's stamp on front endpaper, binding a bit shaken but still holding firmly. Text clean and unmarked. 1888 Hard Cover. 246, 256 pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt, green endpapers. From the sketchbook of Washington Irving. Frontispiece and plates by John G. Duncan. A collection of short stories and a few short pieces of nonfiction from Irving's Sketch Book and Christmas stories, including: The Author's Account of Himself; The Voyage; Roscoe; The Wife; Rip Van Winkle; English Writers on America; Rural Life in England; The Broken Heart; The Art of Book-Making; A Royal Poet; The Country Church; The Widow and Her Son; A Sunday in London; The Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap; The Mutability of Literature; Rural Funerals; The Inn Kitchen; The Spectre Bridegroom; Westminster Abbey; Christmas; The Stage Coach; Christmas Eve; Christmas Day; The Christmas Dinner; London Antiques; Little Britain; Stratford-on-Avon; Traits of Indian Character; Philip of Pokanoket; John Bull; The Pride of the Village; The Angler; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Postscript; L'Envoy.