Sketch Book, The

American  

noun

1. a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.

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Example Sentences

Called Orson Welles Sketch Book, the one-man show will feature Welles telling stories about bullfighting and black magic, or just chatting.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Paris Sketch Book the last three words are changed into “the second edition.”

From Project Gutenberg

It was not, however, till 1846, when he began Vanity Fair, that any very large number of persons began to understand what a star had risen in English letters; nor can even Vanity Fair be said to have had any enormous popularity, though its author's powers were shown in a different way during its publication in parts by the appearance of a third sketch book, the Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, more perfect than either of its forerunners, and by divers extremely brilliant Christmas books.

From Project Gutenberg

It purports to combine the Irish Sketch Book, the Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, and Vanity Fair as far as it had then gone; but it does in truth deal chiefly with the literary merits of the latter.

From Project Gutenberg

This repeats, on the authority of Washington Irving’s Sketch Book, the story recorded by Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps. 

From Project Gutenberg