1899 Irving's Complete Works (Library Edition)

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The publisher's Library Edition of this set, containing the works of American short-story writer, essayist and diplomat of the early 19th century, Washington Irving. 

Eighteen volumes. Missing Vol. I of 'The Life of George Washington'. 

Containing a pleasing variety of his short stories, histories, biographies and essays, including a posthumous publication, 'The Crayon Papers', comprising short stories under Irving's pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. 

Uniformly bound in the publisher's green cloth, with red gilt-decorated spine labels. 

Illustrated with a frontispiece to each and a selection of further plates to some. Several leaves throughout the set are uncut. 

The entirety of this set includes the following volumes:

Tales of a Traveller - Nine plates 
The Conquest of Spain / Spanish Voyages of Discovery 
Mahomet and His Successors Vol. I 
Mahomet and His Successors Vol. II / Moorish Chronicles / A Tour of the Prairies 
The Conquest of Granada 
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West 
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (in two volumes) 
Bracebridge Hall or The Humorists 
The Life of George Washington (Vols. II, III and IV, missing Vol. I) 
The Life of Washington Irving / Salmagundi 
Astoria or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains 
The Life of Oliver Goldsmith / Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey - Seven plates. 
The Alhambra - Fifteen plates. 
A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty by Diedrich Knickerbocker 
The Crayon Papers / Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies - Two plates 


This set comes from the library of Redfield Proctor Jr., an American business executive and politician who served as the 59th governor of Vermont from 1923 to 1925. The son of Redfield Proctor, a U. S. politician of the Republican Party and the 37th governor of Vermont. Proctor Jr was born in Proctor, a village named after his family in the town of Cavendish in Windsor County, Vermont. 

With his bookplate to the front pastedowns containing the Vermont governor motto 'Freedom and Unity'.