Complete Edition, with 51 Illustrations in Colour. First published (15s. net) September 1905.
New Impressions January 1907; August 1908; May 1909; November 1910.
Cheaper Issue, with 24 Illustrations in Colour and many new Illustrations in the Text October 1916. New Impression 1917, 1919.
ILLUSTRATIONS
| IN COLOUR | |
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| To face page | |
| “He used to console himself by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of thesages, philosophers and other idle personages, which held its sessionsbefore a small inn” | [Frontispiece] |
| “Certain biscuit-bakers have gone so far as to imprint his likeness ontheir New-Year Cakes” | [x] |
| “These mountains are regarded by all good wives, far and near, as perfectbarometers” | [x] |
| “Some of the houses of the original settlers” | [2] |
| “A curtain-lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching thevirtues of patience and long-suffering” | [2] |
| “Taught them to fly kites” | [2] |
| “His cow would go astray or get among the cabbages” | [ 4] |
| “His children were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to nobody” | [4] |
| “Equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had asmuch ado to hold up as a fine lady does her train in bad weather” | [4] |
| “So that he was fain to draw off his forces and take to the outside of thehouse—the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband.” | [6] |
| “A company of odd-looking persons playing at ninepins” | [10] |
| “They maintained the gravest faces” | [12] |
| “They stared at him with such fixed, statue-like gaze, that his heart turnedwithin him and his knees smote together” | [12] |
| “He even ventured to taste the beverage, which he found had much ofthe flavour of excellent Hollands” | [12] |
| “Surely,” thought he, “I have not slept here all night.... Oh! thatflagon! that wicked flagon! what excuse shall I make to Dame VanWinkle?” | [12] |
| “They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise and invariably strokedtheir chins” | [14] |
| “A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him and pointingat his grey beard” | [14] |
| “The dogs, too, not one of whom he recognised for an old acquaintance,barked at him as he passed” | [14] |
| “He found the house gone to decay.... ‘My very dog,’ sighed poor Rip,‘has forgotten me’” | [16] |
| “They crowded round him, eyeing him from head to foot with great curiosity” | [ 16] |
| Rip’s daughter and grandchild | [20] |
| “He preferred making friends among the rising generation, with whom hesoon grew into great favour” | [24] |
| “The Kaatsberg or Catskill mountains have always been a region full of fable” | [ 26] |
| They were ruled by an old squaw spirit | [28] |
| IN TEXT | |
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| These fairy mountains | [2] |
| Long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians | [5] |
| Peter was the most ancient inhabitant of the village | [21] |
| The Kaatskill mountains had always been haunted by strange beings | [25] |
| Very subject to marvellous events and appearances | [30] |
| When these clouds broke, woe betide the valleys | [33] |
| With a loud ho! ho! | [35] |
By Woden, God of Saxons,