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London: MacMillan and Co., 1882. Hardcover. Very Good +. 5 x 7 1/4 in. xiv, 284 pgs, plus publisher's catalogue. Deep green cloth with gilt decorations and lettering by Caldecott. Charming B&W illus by same throughout text. Gilt sides to text block. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; corners and ends of spine bumped with almost no wear, covers very clean and bright and gilt marvelous. Very good on spine too. Binding is tight with a crack started inside front hinge that doesn't affect the solidity of the binding. Text is very clean with Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. An unusually good copy. Fiction. RGR.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 5 x 8 in. Green cloth boards with beautiful gilt decorations. Condition is NEAR FINE ; minimal shelf wear, covers very clena and all gilt bright. Spine ends bumped but not worn. Binding tight and text spotless. Fic. Stax.

London: Macmillan, 1882. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark green cloth with gilt pictorial front and spine. 284 pp. plus ads. AEG. B.w illustrations by Caldecott throughout, including tissue-guarded frontispiece. Caldecott the perfect illustrator for the old english characters in this forgotten classic. Really superb condition. Essentially as-new. No foxing. No wear to binding at all. FINE

Sleepy Hollow Press, NY, 1978. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists, A Medley was written by Washington Irving in 1821, and published in 1822. This episodic novel was originally published under his pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. As this is a location-based series of character sketches, there are a number of individual plots. The tales centre on the occupants of an English manor (based on Aston Hall, near Birmingham, England, which was occupied by members of the Bracebridge family and which Irving visited." [Pub. Info] 1ST THUS

E-258. Very Good. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, UK. No Date (c1906). Xvi, 267 pgs. Illustrated with 24 color plates (including a frontispiece). Bound in leather by Leary with gilt titles, double gilt rule to the boards and raised bands present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (corners and extremities bumped and rubbed). Marbled endpapers. All edge gilt. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Light foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. As this is a location-based series of character sketches, there are a number of individual plots. The tales centre on the occupants of an English manor (based on Aston Hall, near Birmingham, England, which was occupied by members of the Bracebridge family and which Irving visited). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .