Irving, Washington. RIP VAN WINKLE. Hachette, Paris, 1906 (1st French edition, with text in French). Edition of 200 unsigned, numbered copies, this being copy 147 (there was also a deluxe edition of 20 copies signed by Rackham). Large quarto or small folio, full white vellum with an impressed illustration and lettering in gold, tissue-guarded tipped-in color frontispiece, title page with a black and white illustration, a headpiece at to the first page, 69 pages of text, an additional page with an illustration, recto, and the printer's credit, verso, and 49 tissue-guarded full page tipped-in color plates. The silk ties are laid in. Slight bowing to boards, as is usual with vellum bindings, else a Fine copy.
