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4to. 1905. Edition limited to 250 copies. This copy 218, signed by illustrator. 50 tissue guarded mounted plates. One plate corner creased. Tissue guards cockled. E.p.s slightly foxed with faint browning to top margin otherwise clean and bright. T.e.g. Full vellum gilt with silk ties intact. Images available on request.

Rip Van Winkle is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, published in 1819 as part of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. The story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains and follows Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch American villager who falls asleep before the American Revolution and wakes up twenty years later to a very different world. His disappearance and return are met with incredulity by those around him. This tale is known for its themes of change and continuity, the American past, and individualism.