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The Ingoldsby Legends
by Thomas Ingoldsby
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
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Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Richard Bentley & Son; 1882. Edinburgh edition. With fifty illustrations by Cruikshank, Leech, Tenniel, Barham, Du Maurier, etc. Leather bound, hardcover. Rugby School round gilt shield to front cover. Gilt decoration to spine with five raised bands. Red label to top of spine with title in gilt letters. Top and bottom of spine shows shelf wear. Outer guttering back and front scuffed. Corners rubbed. Marbled end papers and marbling to edges of text block which is slightly faded. Book plate to front paste down dated 1889. Frontispiece depicting ' The Spectre of Tappington'. Preface to the second edition to Richard Bentley esq.
Synopsis
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first printed in 1837 as a regular series in Bentley's Miscellany and later in New Monthly Magazine. The legends were illustrated by John Leech and George Cruikshank. They proved immensely popular and were compiled into books published in 1840, 1842 and 1847 by Richard Bentley.
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- Book Attic
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0104730
- Title
- The Ingoldsby Legends
- Author
- Thomas Ingoldsby
- Format/Binding
- Hbk.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley & Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1882
- Pages
- 546 pp.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Myths and Legends;
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- Plate
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- Shelf Wear
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Text Block
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- 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...
- Spine
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