Illustrations of Rip Van Winkle / The Legend of Sleep Hollow, designed & etched ...for Members of the American Art-Union (1848, 1849)
(NY): American Art-Union, 1848-1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong small folio, 15.25 x 12.25 inches, half dark green leather and cloth boards with title label on upper cover, good with some wear to binding, lower third of spine leather replaced with matching cloth, contents good to very good with original stiff paper cover wraps to each volume bound in; the front wrap of "Rip Van Winkle" is on light green paper and features an elaborate lithographed title. Both volumes include the complete prose introductory texts and all six engraved plates. "Rip Van Winkle" has heavy foxing to the plates; "Sleepy Hollow" plates also have foxing, some offsetting, light stains and a very gentle central vertical crease -- not as sharp or defined as "crease" implies -- to the plates. With inscription from 1857 on first blank to Frank Semple from his mother (Semple, 1841-1908, was a prominent financier in Pittsburgh. He was a director in the Union National Bank, Fidelity Title & Trust Co., Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co., Western Insurance Co., and First National Bank of Sewickley. He was also treasurer and director of the Homeopathic Hospital there.). Good. Item #h44420
Price: $250.00