...necessity for poetry, ind, unfortunately for me, for history."— WC //. frcscottRVING'S KNICKERBOCKER. A History of New York from the beginning of the World to the end of the Dutch Dynast)-, etc., etc. By Diedrich Knickerbocker. Sunnyside Edit., $2.25. Riverside Edit., i6mo, 81.75;...

...necessity for poetry, and, unfortunately for me, for history."— W. //. Prescott. IRVING'S KNICKERBOCKER. A History of New York from the beginning of the World to the end of the Dutch Dynasty, etc., etc. By Diedrich Knickerbocker. In one volume. Sunnyside Edition, I2mo, cloth, $2 .25. Riverside...

...relating to the Present War between that Country and Spain. 8vo, cloth. New York, 1866. $1.00 (IRVING, W.) A History of New York. From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. 2 vols., I2mo, calf. Paris, 1824. $3.50 JEFFERSON, THOMAS. Writings. Being his Autobiography, Correspondence,...

...pp. 478, 498.) From " Knickerbocker's History of New York." 146. FROM "TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS." A HISTORY of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty, . . . being the only authentic history of the times that ever hath been or ever will be published,...

.... 2 v. 1822. Chronicle of the conquest of Granada from the MSS of Pray Antonio Agapida. 2 v. 1829. A history of New York from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty by Diedrich Knickerbocker. New ed. 1820. The sketchbook by Geoffrey Crayon. 2 v. 3rded. 1820. Tales...

...York Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club, 1945. Reissued by Walking News, Inc.. New York. 1979. Irving, Washington. A History of New York— From...Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker. The Kinderhook Edition of The Works of Washington Irving. New York, GP Putnam's...

...told by one of the early settlers. He chose the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker. The book, titled A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, was published in 1809. Although this delightful work became better known by its shorter title, Knickerbocker's...

...Gotham were in fact fools.50 Irving further developed his mode of whimsical irony and gentle satire in A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty by Diedrich Knickerbocker '(1809). In the manner of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," though with...

...years after Irving wrote his enormously popular spoof of the old New York Dutch burgher-aristocracy, A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. In 1832, Irving embarked on a journey down the Ohio and west to St. Louis, and then up the Arkansas...

...New York, a book was published with a title that demonstrates the f1ctional author's original intent: 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 Panderings of Walter the Doubter,...