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"Rip van Winkle", by Washington Irving and ill. by Arthur Rackham

William Heinemann, London - 1905, first Rackham edition first printing - 57p + plate pages, 20cmx18cm -  49 colored plates incl. frontispiece (one plate double printed, 2 plates missing) - condition: very good. Original green gilded boards with some wear and a stain on front cover;  colour plates mounted on green paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. 

Rip van Winkle is one of the rarer Rackham editions to find in first edition first printing (most are later editions or later printings).

"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it is part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." The story's title character is a Dutch-American villager living around the time of the American Revolutionary War.



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