Fifty-two selected plates inserted, including portraits of Goldsmith's contemporaries, many proofs.
IRVING, Washington.—Oliver Goldsmith: a Biography. By Washington Irving. With illustrations. New York: George P. Putnam & Co. . . . MDCCCLIII. 4to, green morocco, gilt back and side panels, gilt top, uncut edges, by Matthews.
Inserted in this copy are the original manuscript corrections and revisions in the handwriting of Irving.
IRVING, Washington.—Life of George Washington. By Washington Irving. . . . New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., . . . 1855. [-1859] 4to, five volumes, half olive morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition. No. 37 of one hundred and ten copies printed on large paper, with India proof impressions of all the plates, including the series published as a supplement.
The title-page of Volume I reads, "In three vols." Volumes II and III are dated 1856, Volume IV, 1857, Volume V, 1859.
IRVING, Washington.—The Works of Washington Irving. New edition, revised [with the Life and Letters of Irving, by his nephew Pierre M. Irving, and the Spanish Papers] New York: Geo. P. Putnam. 1860-[1867]. Square 8vo, twenty-eight volumes, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Matthews.
Large paper copy, one hundred printed.
Portraits, steel plates, and woodcuts after the designs of Leslie, Allston, Darley, and others.
IRVING, Washington.—Ninety-three pages in the hand-writing of Washington Irving, being the original manuscript copy of that portion of Irving's Life of Washington covering the incidents relative to the Treason of Benedict Arnold: India proof portraits of Arnold and André added. 4to, half green morocco.