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4to. 25 x 30.5 cm. Full roan with gilt stamping , inlaid picture by Rackham, and ribbon ties. Thick handmade paper. One of 325 numbered copies. Binding with repaired crack on spine. Very good. Illustrated with mounted color prints by Rackham. OCLC Number: 840483698.

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.