A charming volume of old English Christmas traditions written by famed American author Washington Irving and illustrated by renowned British illustrator Randolph Caldecott. This book has been restored and reprinted from the 1886 edition.

OLD CHRISTMAS (Facsimile Edition)

Irving., Washington

Children's Books

Sleepy Hollow Restorations

Aspects of Early New York Society and Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Judd, Jacob & Irwin H. Polishook (Eds.)

Social Sciences

From dust jacket notes: "Each succeeding generation discovers anew the warmth and fantasy in these delightful stories. They are Washington Irving's best pieces from THE SKETCH BOOK,first published in 1819-1820, and considered by many to be the best he ever wrote. The text for this handsome new edition is based upon the Author's Revised Edition of 1848....In 1848, the American Art Union published a special edition of Rip Van Winkle for its members with six illustrations designed and etched by Felix O. C. Darley (1822-1888), the Philadelphia-born artist whose work had already been seen and enjoyed by a very wide American public. In the following year six new Darley illustrations for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow were published in a similar special edition. These twelve are the high point in illustrations for Irving's works. This volume reproduces for the first time all twelve illustrations in full color. The six pictures for Rip Van Winkle are from the collection of Sleepy Hollow Restorati

Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1st edition by Washington Irving (1974) Hardcover

Literature & Fiction

Washington, Irving

Literary

Life of George Washington

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United States

Essays examine the history of American technology, energy sources, and transportation, and how they influenced the development of an independent economy

An Emerging Independent American Economy, 1815-1875.

Business & Money

Judd, Jacob

Frese, Joseph R.

Economics

On April 26, 1865, as Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege paused in Union Square, New York, before being taken by rail to Springfield, Illinois, William Cullen Bryant listened as his own verse elegy for the slain president was read to a great concourse of mourners by the Reverend Samuel Osgood. Only five years earlier and a few blocks downtown, at Cooper Union, Bryant had introduced the prairie candidate to his first eastern audience. There his masterful appeal to the conscience of the nation prepared the way for his election to the presidency on the verge of the Civil War. Now, Bryant stood below Henry Kirke Brown's equestrian statue of George Washington, impressing Osgood as if he were "the 19tth Century itself thinking over the nation and the age in that presence." Bryant's staunch support of the Union cause throughout the war, and of Lincoln's war efforts, no less than his known influence with the president, led several prominent public figures to urge that he write Lincoln's biography. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote him, "No man combines the qualities for his biographer so completely as yourself and the finished task would be a noble crown to a noble literary life." But Bryant declined, declaring his inability to record impartially critical events in which he had taken so central a part. Furthermore, while preoccupied with the editorial direction of the New York Evening Post, he was just then repossessing and enlarging his family's homestead at Cummington, Massachusetts, where he hoped his ailing wife might, during long summers in mountain air, regain her health. But in July 1866, Frances died of recurrent rheumatic fever, and, Bryant confessed to Richard Dana, he felt as "one cast out of Paradise." After France's death Bryant traveled with his daughter Julia for nearly a year through Great Britain and the Continent, where he met British statesman and novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton and French literary critic Hyppolyte Taine, renewed his friendship with Spanish poet Carolina Coronado, Italian liberator Giuseppe Garibaldi, and British and American artists, and visited the family of the young French journalist Georges Clemenceau, as well as the graves of earlier acquaintances Francis Lord Jeffrey and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In his spare moments Bryant sought solace by beginning the translation of Homer, and Longfellow had found relief after his wife's tragic death by rendering into English Dante's Divine Comedy. Home again in New York, Bryant bought and settled in a house at 24 West 16th Street which would be his city home for the rest of his life. Here he completed major publications, including the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer and an exhaustive Library of Poetry and Song, and added to published tributes to earlier friends, such as Thomas Cole, Fenimore Cooper, and Washington Irving, memorial discourses on Fitz-Greene Halleck and Gulian Verplanck. In addition to his continued direction of the New York Homeopathic Medical college and the American Free Trade League, he was elected to the presidency of the Williams College Alumni Association, the International Copyright Association, and the Century Association, the club of artists and writers of which, twenty years earlier, he had been a principal founder and which he would direct for the last decade of his life.

The Van Courtlandt Family Papers: Volume IV (Van Cortlandt Family Papers)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Period illustrations help tell the stories of a lazy man who slept for twenty years and a frail schoolteacher who is terrified by a mysterious, headless horseman

Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow Restorations (Organization)

Officers and Gentlemen

SIMPSON, Jeffrey

This is a beautiful book honoring Washington Irving (1783-1859) and his house, Sunnyside, as focal points of America's artistics life during the first half of the nineteenth century. Irving's colorful and painterly style continues to delight readers in the U.S. and abroad. His work had a profound influence upon the artists of his day.

Visions of Washington Irving: Selected Works from the Collections of Historic Hudson Valley.

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