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The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and marvels
by Ingoldsby, Thomas [Richard Harris Barham]
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1891. [The "Albion" edition). Eighteen illustrations by Cruikshank, Leech etc, small thick octavo, pp xxiv, 520, marbled edges, a little foxing of the preliminary pages and front and rear blanks, otherwise clean internally, a School Prize inscription before the half title from South Shields High School, full red polished leather, blind-stamped and decorated at the edges, inner dentelles gilt, the spine decorated in gilt, a little rubbed and slightly worn, marbled endpapers, with the bookplate of A. Banks Raffle.. Full Leather. Good. Illus. by George Cruikshank. John Leech..
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020104
- Title
- The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and marvels
- Author
- Ingoldsby, Thomas [Richard Harris Barham]
- Illustrator
- George Cruikshank. John Leech.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne & Co
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1891
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrators; Fiction; Humour; Victorian;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mike Park Ltd
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London, Greater London
About Mike Park Ltd
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- Gilt
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