Irving's Sketch Book Notes 1817 & Irving's Tour in Scotland 1817

Yale University Press, New Haven, 1927. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Very fine 2 volume set in original slip-case which includes Irving's Sketch Book 1817 and Irving's Tour of Scotland. This set is limited to 525 copies this is copy # 55. These books are edited with a critical introduction by Stanley T. Williams. Frontis piece on volume1 is tissue protected. Books are quarter bound in black cloth over pale green boards. Top edge is gilt. Fore-edges and bottom edges are untrimmed, top edge is gilt. Volume1: The small notebook which was an important source for Washington Irving's most enduring work of literature bears on its face Scottish names, a note on Burns ( Robert) and then, under the date "1817," the following: Notes while preparing Sketch Book & c." On the reverse are written the same date and the address of an acquittance in London. The description continues. Volume 2: This volume contains six tissue protected illustrations. Some pages remain uncut. Washington Irving's Tour of Scotland, now first published(1927), Has biographical and literary importance not possessed by his other journals of travel, It was written at the very turning point of his career, in the year 1817, the year in which he was, perhaps, most strongly influenced by Walter Scott, by Robert Burns, by the literary society of England and Scotland and by old romantic England. These are very fine historical documents in a very fine set. Limited and Scarce and Rare.