1824 LETTERS OF JONATHAN OLDSTYLE GENT BY WASHINGTON IRVING BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE^
Item History & Price
I have here for sale a rare book entitled LETTERS OF JONATHAN OLDSTYLE, GENT by the author of The Sketch Book with a Biographical Notice published by Effingham Wilson, London, in 1824. This is a First Edition book. Washington Irving made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letter to the "Morning Chronicle" written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. This is the First Edition of this compilation of his work. There are just two copies of this book sho...wing on COPAC - Cambridge and the BL (but their copy is the Third Edition).Quarter bound brown leather on marbled hardboards. Boards and spine are worn with leather missing on the spine. Some foxing. All pages are tight and the text is clear. x, 68 pages. 20.5 cm x 13.5 cm.
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We have over 1000 items in our Ebay shop on a wide range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if and anything else takes your fancy.Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
