SKETCH BOOK OF Geoffrey Crayon Sout. ARTIST'S EDITION. ILLUSTRATED WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ENGRAV- "I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men's NEW YORK: BROADWAY. G. P. PUTNAM, 441 MDCCCLXIV. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, BY G. P. PUTNAM, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. C. A. ALVORD, ELECTROTYPER AND PRINTER. PUBLISHER'S NOTICE. Is this special presentation of that work of WASHINGTON IRVING which has continued, in both hemispheres, to be peculiarly the favorite, the publisher has aimed at a high standard of excellence. The names of the artists who have graced the volume with their pencils, and the sketches they have contributed, will speak for themselves, and need no comment from the publisher. Those only, however, who have actually tried the experiment can fully appreciate, the difficult and expensive task of producing a volume of this kind that shall be thoroughly satisfactory to the artists as well as to the public. Suffice it to say, that unusual care has been taken, and unusual cost incurred, as regards the designs, the engraving, the paper, and the printing. An intelligent and discriminating taste for this manner of illustration, and for general excellence in the art of book-making, is rapidly increasing in our community, even in this period of national discipline; and the publisher of this volume has endeavored to place it a step in advance, to meet the purer and severer requirements of popular demand. The illustrations are engraved from original designs by many of our most eminent artists who have taken a warm interest in this experiment. The paper has been made for this special purpose with peculiar care, and from the choicest materials; and the printing, by Mr. Alvord, tells its own story to the adept and to the amateur. The binding, by Mr. Matthews, will be appreciated by discriminating lovers of choice books. 441 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, Sept., 1863. |