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Washington Irving

Male : Essayist & Historian. Never married. Collaborated with his brother and a friend on a periodical entitled "Salmagundi". Left America in 1815 and travelled for the next 17 years, especially in Europe
Nationality : American Place of Birth : New York

Date of Birth : 1783 Date of Death : 1859 Age : 76

Pseudonyms : Jonathan Oldstyle, Diedrich Knickerbocker, Geoffrey Crayon, Gent

Other Work : Lawyer.
1807-1820
Salmagundi, or the Whim-Whams & Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq & Others
(1807 Longworth, NY) - bound set of 20 numbers.
(1811 J M Richardson) - 2 vols
Anon with J K Paulding & William Irving
The History of New York
(1809 Inskeep & Bradford, NY) - by Diedrich Knickerbocker
(1820 John Murray)
Biography of James Lawrence, Esq
(1813 L Deare, US) - Anon
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
(1819-1820 Van Winkle, NY)
(1820 John Miller Vol 1 & John Murray Vol 2) - 2 vols
[This contains the story of Rip Van Winkle]

1821-1830
A Humorous History of New York
(1820 for W Wright, London. New Ed) - Anon
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
(1822 C S Van Winkle, NY) (1822 Murray) - by G Crayon. 2 vols
Tales of a Traveller
(1824 Carey & Lea, Phila) (1824 Murray) - by G Crayon. 2 vols
Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent
(1824 William H Clayton, NY) (1824 Effingham Wilson) - Anon
Salmagundi, or Whim-Whams & Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq & Others
(1825 Bumpus, London)
A History of the Life and Voyages of Columbus
(1828 Murray - 4 vols) (1828 Carvill, NY - 3 vols)
(1828 Galignani, Paris) - 4 vols
A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
(1829 Carey & Lea) (1829 Murray - 2 vols)
(1829 Galignani, Paris - 2 vols) - by Fray Antonio Agapida

1831-1840
Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus
(1831 Carey & Lea) (1831 Murray)
The Alhambra : A Series of Tales & Sketches of the Moors & Spaniards
(1832 Carey & Lea, Phila)
(1832 Colburn & Bentley, London) - by Geoffrey Crayon. 2 vols
Collected Works
(1834 Paris)
A Tour of the Prairies
(1835 London) (1835 Carey, Lea & Blanchard) - Anon
Crayon Miscellany
(Tour on the Prairies, Legends of Spain) (1835 Carel, Lea & Blanchard)
(In UK as "Miscellanies", 1835 Murray - 3 vols)
Legends of the Conquest of Spain
(1835 Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Phila)
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey
(1835 Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Phila) (1835 Murray)
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains
(1837 Carey, Phila) - 2 vols. with his nephew
In UK as The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
(1837 Bentley) - 3 vols
The Beauties of Washington Irving
(1836 Tegg) - George Cruikshank
The Rocky Mountains, or Scenes, Incidents & Adventures in the Far West
(1837 Phila) - 2 vols
The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
(1840 Harper) - 2 vols (1849 Murray)

1841-1850
Biography and Poetical Remains of Margaret Miller Davidson
(1841 Lea & Blanchard)
(1843 Tilt & Bogue, London)
Collected Works
(1848-50 NY) - 15 vols
The Book of the Hudson
(1849 Putnam, US)
Life of Mahomet and His Successors
(1850 Putnam) (1850 Murray) - 2 vols
Rip Van Winkle
(1850 Joseph Cundall 5/-) - Charles Simms from drawings by Felix Darley

1851-1860
Wolfert's Roost and Other Papers
(1855 Putnam)
(In UK as "Wolfert's Roost & Other Tales" 1855 Bohn)
The Life of George Washington
(1855-9 Putnam) - 5 vols + Ltd Ed of 110 sets
(1855-9 Bohn) - 5 vols

1861-1880
The Life and Letters
(1862-4 Bentley) - 4 vols
Offered in 1999 for £450
Rip Van Winkle
(1864 Putnam, NY)
Spanish Papers and Other Miscellanies
(1866 Putnam, US) (1855 Sampson Low - 2 vols)
Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Christopher Columbus
(1867 Tegg, London)
Biographies and Miscellaneous Papers
(1867 Bell & Daldy)
Rip Van Winkle, a Legend of the Katskill Mountains
(1871 Putnam for Henry L Hinton, NY)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the Spectre Bridegroom
(1875 Lippincott)
Old Christmas
(1876 Macmillan) - Randolph Caledecott
The Works
(1876-9 Bell & Sons) - 11 vols
Bracebridge Hall
(1877 Macmillan) - Randolph Caledecott
Rip Van Winkle
(c1880 McLoughlin NY) - Thomas Nast
Collected Works
(1880-3 Putnam) (1882-3 Sampson Low) - 27 vols

1881- 1900
Rip Van Winkle : A Legend of the Hudson
(1887 Blackie) - Gordon Browne
Old Christmas
(1892 Macmillan) - 250. Randolph Caldecott
Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
(1893 Macmillan) - G H Boughton
Knickerbocker's History of New York
(1894 London) - 2 vols. Edward W Kemble
Offered in 1996 for £225
[Filmed in 1944 as "Knickerbocker Holiday]
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
(1895 Putnam, London & NY)
- Arthur Rackham et al. 2 vols
The Alhambra
(1896 Macmillan) - Joseph Pennell
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humourists
(1896 Putnams, NY) 2 vols. - Arthur Rackham

1901-1910
The Works : Jefferson Edition
(1901 Putnams) - 40 vols
Rip Van Winkle
(1905 Heinemann) - Arthur Rackham
Offered in 1991 for £250
(1905 Doubleday)
+ a Signed Ltd Ed of 250 copies
Offered in 1996 for £3500
The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall
(1906 Dent) - C E Brock
Old Christmas
(1908 Hodder & Stoughton) - Cecil Aldin
Bachelors and a Bachelor's Confessions
(1909 Heinemann) - Cecil Aldin
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
(1909 Grant Richards) - Arthur Keller

1911-1925
Christmas Day : from the Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
(1911 PP for G A Nelson, NY) - 245
Rip Van Winkle
(1913 Jack) - Charles Robinson
Knickerbocker Papers, being Rip Van Winkle & Legend of Sleepy Hollow
(1914 Philip Lee Warner, London) - 1000
The Letters of George Washington to Henry Brevoort
(1915 Putnam) - 2 vols.
+ Ltd De Luxe ed of 255 sets
Rip Van Winkle
(1915 Jack) - Charles Robinson
Old Christmas
(1916 Putnam) - Frank Dadd
The Journals of Washington Irving from July 1815 to July 1842
(1919 Bibliophile Soc, NY) - 3 vols
Rip Van Winkle
(1921 David McKay, Phila) - N C Wyeth
Notes and Journals of Travel in Europe 1804-5
(1921 Grolier Club, NY - 3 vols. 230 sets)
- Rudolph Ruzicka
Abu Hassan
(1924 Bibliophile Society, US)
The Wild Huntsman
(1924 Bibliophile Soc, US)
An Unwritten Drama of Lord Byron
(1925 Charles F Heartman, US) - 51 copies

1926-1930
Washington Irving Diary : Spain 1828-9
(1926 Hispanic Soc of America)
Notes While Preparing Sketch Book & 1817 Tour in Scotland
(1927 Yale UP - 2 vols 525 sets)
(1928 OUP) - 2 vols
Letters from Sunnyside and Spain
(1928 Yale UP & OUP)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
(1928 Harrap) (1928 David McKay, Phila)
+ 375 signed by Arthur Rackham
Offered in 1999 for £950
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
(1930 Falk, SF) - 229. Judson L Starr
The Bold Dragon & Other Ghostly Tales
(1930 Knopf) - James Dougherty
Rip Van Winkle
(1930 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - F O C Darley
The Poems of George Washington
(1930 NY Public Library) - Pamphlet

After 1931
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
(1931 Cheshire House NY) - 1200. Etchings by Bernhardt Wall
Journal of Washington Irving 1823-4
(1931 Harvard UP & OUP)
Washington Irving and the Storriws 1821-8
(1933 Harvard UP & OUP)
Journal, 1803
(1935 OUP)
Three Choice Sketches by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
(1941 Greenwood Press, San Mateo) - 250. Decorations by Frank Stauffacher
Washington Irving's Alhambra Tales
(1946 Peter Lunn) - Robin Jacques
Stories of the Alhambra
(1962 Heinemann) - Richard Kennedy
Washington Irving & the House of Murray
(1969 Tennessee UP)
The Alhambra
(1969 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Lima de Freitas
The Ghostly Tales of Washington Irving
(1979 John Calder)
Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
(1985 Pennyroyal Editions, West Hatfield) - Barry Moser

READING
Pierre M Irving : Life and Letters of Washington Irving - By His Nephew
(1862-4 Putnam) - 4 vols
(1862-4 Bentley) - 4 vols
Charles D Warner : Washington Irving
(1882 Sampson Low)
George William Curtis : Washington Irving - A Sketch
(1891 Grolier Club, NY) - 344
Charles Dudley Warner : The Work of Washington Irving
(1893 Harper)
The Romance of Mary W Shelley, John Howard Payne & Washington Irving
(1906 Bibliophile Society, US)
G S Hellman : Washington Irving, Esq - Ambassador from the New World to the Old
(1925 Cape)
William Langfield : Washington Irving - A Bibliography
(1933 NY Public Library)
- with Philip Blackburn
Stanley T Williams : The Life of Washington Irving
(1935 NY) - 2 vols
Stanley T Williams & Mary E Edge : A Bibliography of the Writings of - A Checklist
(1936 NY) (1936 OUP)
W van Brooks : The World of Washington Irving
(1945) (1946 Dent)
Edward Wagenknecht : Washington Irving - Moderation Displayed
(1962 NY)
William L Hedges : Washington Irving - An American Study 1802-32
(1963 Baltimore)
Edward T Bowden : Washington Irving Bibliography
(1989 Twayne US)

Related Writers

Randolph Caldecott
George Cruikshank
Joseph Cundall
Oliver Goldsmith
Arthur Rackham
Charles Robinson


See also

Charles Edmund Brock
Gordon Frederick Browne
Everyman Series 1-500
Everyman Series 501-1000
Foulis, T N
Richard Pitt Kennedy
Mary Shelley