Description
The Limited Editions Club edition of The Alhambra by Washington Irving.
Quarto, xiii, [1], 304pp. Bound in full Toledo damask, woven in a Hispano-Moorish pattern of henna and gold, with dark henna-brown leather spine label stamped in gilt. Printed at the Press of A. Colish, with 16 full-page drawings and 25 text drawings by Lima de Freitas. With the publisher’s slipcase. Includes the paperwork and Monthly Letter Number 429 from the Limited Editions Club.
One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by illustrator Lima de Freitas on the colophon, this being number 85. (LEC, 422)
First published in 1832, The Alhambra collects Irving’s sketches, legends, and historical reflections from his residence in the Moorish palace at Granada.
