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443 pp. 8vo, old scuffed calf; the front cover detached. First edition; second printing of Part I; Variant A of Part III. BAL 10106. Top one inch of title page lacking (probably to remove an ownership signature which appears at the head of the tile pages to the other parts); lower half of p. 227 lacking; marginal chipping and dog-ears; contemporary juvenile pencilled annotations on a few dozen pages.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. is a collection of 34 essays and short stories including 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'.