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Title: Knickerbocker's history of New York, vol. 1 (of 2)

Author: Washington Irving

Illustrator: E. W. Kemble


Release date: February 13, 2026 [eBook #77921]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893

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Ornate illustrated book cover with harbor scene and a seventeenth-century Dutch figure
Decorative endpaper with symmetrical scrollwork and crossed quills

WILLIAM THE TESTY.

Van Twiller Edition

Knickerbocker’s History of New York

By
Washington Irving
With Illustrations
by
Edward W. Kemble
Vol I.
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK                        LONDON
27 West Twenty-third St.      24 Bedford Street, Strand
The Knickerbocker Press
1894
COPYRIGHT, 1893
BY
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
Electrotyped, Printed and Bound by
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
A History of New York
From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. Containing, among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong; the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam, being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been or Ever Will Be Published
by
Diedrich Knickerbocker
De waarheid die in duister lag,
Die komt mit klaarheid aan den dag
Wall-mounted pendulum clock centered within a decorative border