Rip Van Winkle (Illustrated by Arthur Rackham): COLOR SeaWolf Press Illustrated Classic Paperback – August 10, 2025

A special COLOR edition of this classic with illustrations by Arthur Rackham..Original, unabridged text. A cover based on the 1916 edition. SeaWolf Press does not use AI-generated images for their covers or illustrations.49 original illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 20 are black and white line drawings. 29 are full page color illustrations.Printed locally, not overseas.Be sure to use Amazon's 'Read sample' feature to compare our edition with others.Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving is a gently comic folktale set in a pre-Revolution Dutch village at the foot of New York’s Catskills. Rip, a kind but chronically idle farmer henpecked by his formidable wife, wanders into the mountains with his dog, meets a band of eerie, old-fashioned revelers (often linked to Henry Hudson’s crew) playing ninepins, drinks their liquor, and falls into an enchanted sleep. He wakes with a foot-long beard and a rusty musket to discover that twenty years have passed—he has missed the entire American Revolutionary War. Back in his village, King George’s tavern sign now bears George Washington’s face, politics crackle on every corner, his friends are dead or moved on, his children are grown, and his wife is gone.Get the companion SeaWolf Press classic The Legend of Sleepy Hollow also illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Read more