A Tour On The Prairies.

WASHINGTON IRVING

Publication: John Murray, 1835, London

First Edition. First Issue, Second State as defined by Blanck-BAL10139. 8vo. Full Red Leather, with raised bands and gilt-stamped spine. xiii, 335pp. "By The Author Of "The Sketch-Book." Irving's "tour" among the Osage and Pawnee tribes in 1832. "Washington Irving and his nephew John Treat Irving accompanied Indian Commissioner Henry L. Ellsworth and his party on a tour of the southern Great Plains in the fall of 1832...The tour was an unusually well-recorded journey."--Wagner/Camp/Becker 56:1. "Irving eagerly seized the opportunity offered by a government mission to the Pawnees, of observing for himself the peculiarities of a savage race; and of what he saw he has made the most charming picture ever painted of its life."--Field 763. A beautifully rebound copy in fine condition. Protected in a custom slipcase, with title and author in gilt on leather label on spine.