Fray Antonio Agadipa (IRVING, Washington)

A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada. [Large Paper Edition]

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829. First Edition. Two Vols. in Three-Quarter Leather. Two volumes. Tall 8vo. Bound in three-quarter brown calf over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt on spine. Bound without advertisements. A touch of shelf wear, and a light dampstain to fore-margin of Vol. I. Item #7207

First edition. The sought-after large paper edition, of which 500 copies were printed. A small-paper edition was published simultaneously.

From 1826 to 1829 Irving served as diplomatic attache in Spain, living for a time in Madrid, where he gathered material for his Christopher Columbus (1828). That effort was quickly followed with this historical novel, thus establishing Irving as "an important 19th-century interpreter of Spanish legend and culture" (DAB). BAL 10125.

Price: $600.00