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The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels Illustrated by Arthur Rackham [Leather Edition in Slipcase]
by Ingoldsby, Esquire, Thomas
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Rapid River, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: Mr. William Heinemann, 1920. Limited leather edition from Mr. William Heinemann; 1920 early printing. Large finely crafted volume in slip-case measures 8 x 10 1/4" x 2" and weighes over 4 1/2 lbs. Dark brown pebbled morocco (leather) boards, gilt accents and spine titles, light shelf wear. Spine features four raised hubs or bands w/gilt decoration, and five panels with gilt borders and titles in two. Varying crisp gilt decoration, vignettes, and borders to front and back boards. Gilt dentelle borders to perimeter of pastedowns. Pastel colored thick flourishing endpapers varying at front and back. Frontispiece mounted color plate adjacent to half-title page: "Hey ! up the chimney, lass ! Hey after you!" Rough-cut deckled heavy stock pages near fine; no writing. Smooth bright gilded top edge. Bind fine; accordian hinges intact. Bright red silk ribbon page marker. Includes rare slip case with dark brown leather to opening edges and cut to curve of volume's spine. Features two dozen richly detailed tipped-in illustrations mounted on greyish green thick matte paper; each with adjacent captioned page guards. Also graced with a dozen monochromatic, tinted full-page design of Arthur Rackham. Additional full and partial-page imagery, vignettes, and decoration throughout. This three series of tales, and miscellaneous poems, includes such tales as: The Witches' Frolic; The Ghost; Legend of Hamilton Tighe; The Merchant of Venice; The Ingoldsby Penance; The Dead Drummer; The Wedding Day; The Confession, etc. Includes a preface to First & Second Series by Thomas Ingoldsby and a prefatory note by A. R. Printed in Great Britain by R. Clay and Sons, Ltd., Brunswick Street, Stamford Street, S.E. I, and Bungay, Suffolk. 549 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Full-Leather. Fine. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- BiblioStax
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020708
- Title
- The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels Illustrated by Arthur Rackham [Leather Edition in Slipcase]
- Author
- Ingoldsby, Esquire, Thomas
- Illustrator
- Rackham, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Mr. William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Dentelle
- Borders on the inner edge of a book with a lacy pattern, most often gilt. Popular in France during the 18th century on covers of...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Fine
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