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The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels
by Ingoldsby, Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Richard Bentley and Son, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, 1877. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. George Cruikshank, John Leech, and John Tenniel. Quarto. xiv, 514 pages. Hardcover bound in decorative full green morocco with cover designs embossed in gilt. The spine and the edges of the boards are faded to brown. There are a few dark spots about the edges of the binding. Raised bands with 6 compartments on the spine with decorative gilt stamping in the compartments of ravens, a helmet and another design. The front and rear boards also have decorative gilt stamping showing ravens, etc. All edges gilt. The binding is rubbed and bumped at the corners. Hinges secure. Marbled endpapers. The flyleaves are foxed. The text is a bit toned but is generally clean. Illustrated throughout. A very attractive edition. A collection of poems and other writings based on earlier legends, including a number of stories based on witches, ghosts, the Devil, etc.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051180
- Title
- The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels
- Author
- Ingoldsby, Thomas
- Illustrator
- George Cruikshank, John Leech, and John Tenniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley and Son, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1877
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1877; Thomas Ingoldsby; Poems; Legends; Metaphysical; Ghosts; George Cruikshank; John Tenniel; John Leech; Illustrated; Leather Binding; England; English; History; 19th Century; Rare; Collectible; Fine Binding; Great Britain.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Poetry; Metaphysical;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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...
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