SCARCE EDITION WITH PROOF PLATES ON JAPAN IRVING, WASHINGTON. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon. 2 volumes. Mounted illustrations (some from photographs) by Arthur Rackham, Julian Rix, Joseph Jefferson, and others, with lettered tissue guards (offsetting to facing pages as usual). Page decoration borders of holly, mistletoe, ivy or flowered wreaths around the text printed in green and red. 8vo, rebound in dark blue 3/4 morocco, spines tooled and lettered in gilt (volume numbers transposed), by Bennett, top edges gilt; old ownership blindstamp at upper margin of limitation leaf to both volumes. New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1895
first edition thus. number 2 of 100 copies with proof plates on japan. Van Tassel Edition, with 4 Rackham illustrations (Volume I, frontispiece and plate facing page 92; Volume II, plates facing pages 34 and 106). Other editions have only 3 Rackham illustrations.
