Search Results: the ingoldsby legends of mirth and by richard harris barham

Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1893. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1893. 6th Edition. 426 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

New York: W.J. Widdleton 1864. (Hardcover set) 320, 406pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 2 volumes. Embossed cloth cover, frontispiece, illustrations. Previous owner's inscription, minor edgewear, endpapers clipped. Pseudonym of Richard Harris Barham. Includes A Memoir of the Author. Illustrations by George Cruikshank & Leach. (Essays, Legends).

London: Macmillan and Co. , 1936. Hardback. Fine. 7" by 5" . George Cruikshank; John Leech; Barham. A beautiful Zaehnsdorf morocco bound edition of the famous Ingoldsby Legends. A popular collection of myths, legends, ghost stories, and poetry by English clergyman Richard Harris Barham, published under pen-pane Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor. First serialised in 1837, they became an immediate success and remained popular through the nineteenth century. Featuring the poem 'The Jackdaw of Rheims,' as well as early transcriptions of the song 'A Flanklyn's Dogge.'With a frontispiece and other illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank and John Leech, artists known for illustrating works of such authors as Charles Dickens, as well as Barham himself. In a lovely half morocco binding signed Zaehnsdorf. Rebound in half crushed morocco over cloth covered boards, with five raised bands, gilt to spine and boards, renewed marbled endpapers. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear, some sunning to spine… Read More

J. M. Dent. London; E. P. Dutton. New York. 1907. First edition in this form. 4to.. pp. xviii, 549, (iii) blank. Coloured frontispiece and 23 coloured plates [all tipped in and with printed guards], 12 tinted full-page plates, 66 text illustrations. Bound in full green morocco, spine with raised bands and titles in gilt, elaborate gilt turn-ins signed with their palette signature by MORRELL, LONDON, top edge gilt, the spine faded as always, the occasional scuff and little scratch, top rear corner bumped, one plate with a lower corner tip folded, else a nice copy.

London: William Heinemann,, 1919. An attractively bound copy of the Ingoldsby Legends. Originally published in 1898, Rackham's illustrated edition was revised and redrawn in 1907 so that "greater prominence could be given to the illustrations by better and larger reproductions, including a greater number of illustrations in colour" (Prefatory Note). These popular tales, which were purportedly based on the author's discovery of old documents, were in fact mostly reworkings of known narrative sources such as Kentish myth and Sir Walter Scott. Thomas Ingoldsby was the pseudonym of Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845), whose "knowledge of such areas as heraldry and witchcraft also lends a degree of authenticity to the Legends" (ODNB). Initially appearing in the serial Bentley's Miscellany in 1837, the tales were first published in book form in 1840 and inspired numerous illustrators. Quarto (238 x 182 mm). Early 20th-century full red morocco by Bayntun (Riviere), Bath, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands,… Read More