246, 256 pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt, green endpapers. From the sketchbook of Washington Irving. Frontispiece and plates by John G. Duncan. A collection of short stories and a few short pieces of nonfiction from Irving's Sketch Book and Christmas stories, including: The Author's Account of Himself; The Voyage; Roscoe; The Wife; Rip Van Winkle; English Writers on America; Rural Life in England; The Broken Heart; The Art of Book-Making; A Royal Poet; The Country Church; The Widow and Her Son; A Sunday in London; The Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap; The Mutability of Literature; Rural Funerals; The Inn Kitchen; The Spectre Bridegroom; Westminster Abbey; Christmas; The Stage Coach; Christmas Eve; Christmas Day; The Christmas Dinner; London Antiques; Little Britain; Stratford-on-Avon; Traits of Indian Character; Philip of Pokanoket; John Bull; The Pride of the Village; The Angler; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Postscript; L'Envoy.
