1895 Bracebridge Hall

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding

The third edition, third printing of the work. The first edition of this work was published in 1876 (dated 1877). 

Half bound in morocco leather.

Replete with a frontispiece and numerous charming vignette illustrations by the British artist and illustrator Randolph Caldecott. 

Washington Irving, known to some by his pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, was a famous American short-story writer, historian, essayist, and diplomat of the early nineteenth century, who was deeply invested in the project of developing a so-called American Literary tradition. Irving wrote a satirical account of the history of New York City titled A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker which popularised use of the term 'knickerbocker' to colloquially refer to persons from New York. Bracebridge Hall was also originally published under a pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, and is a humorous episodic novel whose stories focus on the occupants of an English manor.