The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels.
by RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrates). INGOLDSBY, Thomas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Dent, London., 1907. Second edition, re-set and with additional (or substitute) plates. Originally published in 1898. Small quarto. pp xx, 549. 24 tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, 12 tinted plates, and numerous black-and-white drawings, by Arthur Rackham. Original green gilt pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt. Printed on Large Paper. Frontispiece plate creased at bottom edge. Edges and prelims a little spotted. Very good indeed.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RACKHAMA005709
- Title
- The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels.
- Author
- RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrates). INGOLDSBY, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dent, London.
- Date Published
- 1907
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- Quarto
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