IRVING, WASHINGTON

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Description

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent. New York: G.P. Putnam & Company, 1854
leather, ink, paper

8vo (213 x 149 mm). Morocco gift binding, gilt; re-backed with original spine laid down, damp-stain running through lower inner corner of first and last few gatherings.

Provenance

Mrs George D Morgan, presentation inscription

Catalogue Note

presentation copy, inscribed by irving on front fly-leaf ("To Mrs George D Morgan | from her friend | Washington Irving | Sunnyside Dec 25' 1856.") Mr & Mrs. George D. Morgan (brother of Edwin D. Morgan, governor of New York from 1858-1862) were neighbors of Irving's homestead Sunnyside in Tarrytown, NY.