Washington. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, ca. 1900.

Two volumes, hardcovers, full green ribbed cloth with gilt decoration and lettering to front covers and spines, 7-7/8” tall, 400 + 422 pp., engraved frontispiece in each volume, illustrated throughout, generally with portraits. Tears on top of each top end of both books. All corners show wear but binding appears to be good. gilding to the spines and top half of bottom portion of decorative border on volume 2 are gold-colored, the rest is more of a copper color.

Bindings are intact.

I am NOt an expert in books. Having said that these 2 books appear to me to be in good condition for their age.

Please use the pictures as part of the description

Foxing on both front pages

Irving was not only named for President Washington but was also blessed by him as a child. This biography was a personal work for him, and despite his failing health (it was completed not long before his death), he pursued it with the same level of research and interviews as some of his other nonfiction works, and of course with the knack for narrative that makes his books so fun to read.