It is Washington Irvine's Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, off course but I found myself reading an edition beautifully illustrated by the master of such tales Arthur Rackham. It was a hot night and tired as I was I could not sleep. With the window open to let in some cool night air I reached for a book that would be comfortably familiar and not too challenging for the early hours of the morning, while the rest of the world slept. And I found myself on a return trip to Sleepy Hollow.
The story of Ichabod Crane and The Headless Horseman is known the world over, Washington Irvine's most popular and famous piece, always in print and cleverly adapted in different mediums. I love the colour full page prints and the clever little fine line mood inhancing drawings which pepper the pages. Summer turns to Autumn in the text and these exotic little florishes add to the ambience. I have Arthur Rackham's Tales Of Mystery And Imagination and he does for Edgar Allen Poe what he did for Washington Irving. Seek these books out, do. They will enhance your book collection.
