THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS 1930 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM, FINE LEATHER BINDING
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[INGOLDSBY, Thomas (pseudonym of BARHAM, Richard Harris (1788-1845)); RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator)]. The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth & Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1930.
Reprint. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (20cm x 14cm x 4.5cm). Pp. xxiii, 638. English text. Handsome binding of blue half-calf. Spine gilt ruled and tooled with five raised bands. Top edge dyed blue. Hand-marbled endpapers. Half-title. Decorative title-page in red and green. 12 colour illustrations including a frontispiece. 90 black-line drawings in the text. Condition: VERY GOOD. A excellent tight and clean copy. School prize plate to front pastedown.
Notes: A classic collection of poetry, ghost stories and legends that are mostly parodies or deliberately humorous. First printed in the Bentley's Miscellany and New Monthly magazines, and first published in book-form between 1840 and 1847. This enlarged edition features twice as many colour plates as the 1898 first (octavo) edition by Rackham.