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Thomas Ingoldsby Esq.. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels. William Heinemann, 1919.
Price: US$73.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5th printing. Slight fading to spine, minor shelf wear. Occasional spots of foxing, most pages and all plates clean. Binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$176.33 + shipping
Description: XIX, 549 pages. With 24 mounted color plates (including frontispiece; all bright and clean) with annotated tissue guards + 12 illustrations printed with tint, & 66 black and white illustrations in the text by Arthur Rackham. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1800 large-8°, grey clothbound with gilt lettering and dark-brown illustrated decorations to front and spine, outside slightly stained, good copy with plates all clean and bright.
Seller: Antiquariat Berghammer, Gräfelfing, Germany
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Description: Hard back binding in publisher's original light brown cloth covers, gilt and dark brown lettering to spine and upper panel, gilt college crest of arms to upper panel, grey paper end papers. Quarto 10½'' x 8'' x, 549 [pp]. 24 mounted colour plates on thick grey card stock, 12 tinted plates, monochrome illustrations in the text. Gilt to spine oxidised, 'Marlborough College' label and personal bookplate of the recipient to front end paper and paste down, corners and tips slightly turned-in and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book)
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Ingoldsby, Thomas. The Ingoldsby legends : or, Mirth & marvels. William Heinemann, London, 1919.
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: THE UNCOMMON JUNE 1919 EDITION - WITH A WELCOME COMPLETE DUST JACKET : A neat, clean and square copy, with light nudge to base spine. Boards are grey, illustrated in black and gilt, similar designs to spine. Uniform in colour, no fading. Grey paper pastedowns and endpapers. Retaining a clean complete dust jacket, 21/- to spine, with two closed/professionally closed tears { see image }; thereafter, very short tears/chips only. Very presentable { removeable protective sleeve. This edition is profusely illustrated, notably by way of 24 mounted colour plates on thick grey card , named tissue guards, 12 tinted plates, numerous monochrome illustrations in the text. p.xvi, 549. A crisp, clean copy. The Ingoldsby Legends is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham.
Seller: BiblioFile, Cadole, FLINT, United Kingdom
Price: US$239.97 + shipping
Description: Hardback, approx 10 x 7.5 inches. Grey-brown cloth with gilt lettering and dark-brown illustrated designs to front and spine. Grey endpapers. With Original Dustwrapper. In very good condition, Minor rubbing to edges. (Dw a little tatty on edges, square loss lower spine) Some minor handling marks. Inside inscription on front endpaper; some pages are still uncut at edges. Plates all clean and bright. Else an excellent and very tight and clean copy. 549pp. 36 plates; 24 colour ?tipped-in? plates & 12 tinted full page illustrations. Many b&w illustrations within text.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto, light brown textured cloth lettered in gilt with dark brown cover and spine illustrations; slightly rubbed. Illustrated edition, with 24 color plate illustrations by Arthur Rackham mounted on thick card stock, 12 tinted plates, and monochrome illustrations interspersed in the text. A striking work.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1251.18 + shipping
Description: 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. For the 1907 ed. see: Latimore & Haskell, pp. 30-31; Riall, p. 83. Quarto (238 x 182 mm). Early 20th-century full red morocco by Bayntun (Riviere), Bath, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands, compartments framed in gilt, covers, turn-ins and board edges gilt ruled, edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Colour frontispiece, 23 colour plates mounted on green paper with captioned tissue guards, 12 full-page tinted illustrations, 66 black and white drawings in text, by Rackham. Binding bright, square and firm, spine lightly sunned, foxing to outer leaves, otherwise internally clean and fresh. A very attractive copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom