Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Illustrated 200th Anniversary Edition

ISBN: 1952433223

Author: Irving, Washington

Condition: New

A nice edition with 70 illustrations by N. C. Wyeth and other illustrators honoring the 200th anniversary of the publication of these classic stories.SeaWolf Press is proud to offer another book in its Illustrated Classics Collection. Each book in the collection contains the text, illustrations, and cover from an early edition. Use Amazon's Lookinside feature to compare this edition with others. Our version has: 70 original black and white illustrations from early editions. N. C. Wyeth illustrated Rip Van Winkle and George Boughton illustrated The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Properly formatted text complete with correct indenting, spacing, footnotes, italics, and tables."Rip Van Winkle" is a short story first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. Irving wrote it while living in Birmingham, England, as part of the collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. This collection also contained "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". This tale is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle.