THE ALHAMBRA

The First Easton Collector's Edition. With 16 full-page drawings, 25 in-text illustrations in line and wash, and a colour frontispiece portrait of Washington Irving by Lima de Freitas. 4to, bound in the publisher's original black leather, the covers fully gilt in an all-over design, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, the compartments fully decorated and lettered in gilt, silk doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker. xii, 304 pp. A pristine copy, as mint and in perfect condition.

Edizione: vivid illustrations portray the magical atmosphere invoked by washington irving. <br> "in the late 1820's an american traveler and writer was offered as his temporary home an ancient castle near granada in spain. the man was washington irving, and the work which resulted from his fortunate sojourn in the castle of the alhambra is a delightfully woven fabric of fact, fiction, history, and folklore. the author enriches the facts of history with the creativity and love of legend from which the character of rip van winkle was born." - the publisher