The legend of Sleepy Hollow
By: by Washington Irving ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Contributors: Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, illustrator; George G. Harrap & Co; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: [Deluxe edition].
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
Published: 1928
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Ghost stories; Juvenile fiction
Description: A superstitious schoolmaster in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
Notes: Edition information from Riall.

"Printed in Great Britain by H. & J. Pillans & Wilson, Edinburgh"--Title page verso.

Title-page printed in olive green and black.

Coloured plates mounted on heavy white paper with letterpress captions on facing pages. One full-page illustration included in pagination.

"Edition limited to Two Hundred and Fifty Copies for England and One Hundred and Twenty-five Copies for the United States"--page [2].

Rare Book copy 1: No. 132, signed by the illustrator.

Rare Book copy 2: No. 25, signed by the illustrator; with an original signed watercolor and ink drawing below the limitation statement. Signed postcard from the illustrator, postmarked May 15, 1931, laid in.

Rare Book copy 3: No. 72, signed by the illustrator.

Riall, R. Arthur Rackham, p. 164

Latimore & Haskell. Arthur Rackham, p. 63-64

Hudson, D. Arthur Rackham, p. 171

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Bound in full parchment with title and illustrator in gilt on upper cover and title and author in gilt on spine; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; decorative endpapers depicting a scene from the story.