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Ingoldsby, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels. William Heinemann, 1929.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gift inscription on half title page. Webbing beginning to show along gutter of title page.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Reprint. Small quarto in pictorial gray cloth binding with gilt lettering & brown decorations. AN ASTONISHINGLY HANDSOME COPY!! Lavishly illustrated with 24 tipped-in color plates, 12 tinted plates and numerous ink drawings in the text. Fine condition. Pages: xix, 549.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
(BARHAM, R.H.) INGOLDSBY, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends of Mirth & Marvels. Heinemann, London, 1929.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 24 color plates, 12 tinted plates, and 66 black & white drawings in the text. 549pp. Thick tall 8vo, brownish pictorial cloth with gilt lettering (spine repaired). William Heinemann, 1929. Later printing. A good(+) copy. Humorous parodies of medieval folklore and poetry.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Ingoldsby, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels. William Heinemann, London, 1929.
Price: US$167.07 + shipping
Description: Reprint, 4to., pp. xix, 549, illustrated by Rackham with 24 tipped-in colour and 12 full page tinted illus., numerous illustrations throughout the text from drawings by Rackham, scattered foxing in prelims and end pages, text clean, front hinge starting, head and foot of spine and corners bumped orig. dec. cl. bds., good condition
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book in very nice condition (VG+ or better), free of markings or notable defect. Jacket is Good+ -- complete but worn, presents reasonably well in the mylar sleeve.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: xix, 549 pp. Illustrated with 24 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham, plus tinted illustrations and numerous black and white text illustrations. 4to, publisher's decorated tan cloth in dust jacket. An unworn, tight and sound copy in a dust jacket with a slightly tanned spine, tiny chips, and light edgewear.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Ingoldsby Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels. William Heinemann, London, 1929.
Price: US$256.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tan covers with brown and gilt titles to front and spine.Covers clean, very veryslight shelf wear to spine ends. Internally as new with no marks or inscriptions. 24 tipped in colour plates on card with titled tissue guards.12 tinted illustrations plus numerous other illustrations within the text.549pp. A really beautiful,bright,tight copy of Rackhams work.
Seller: Valuable Volumes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Ingoldsby, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends. Mirth & Marvels. William Heinemann, London, 1929.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Rackham, Arthur. Reprint. 24 full page illustrations in color and 12 tinted plates and many black and white in text. xix, 549 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in modern three quarter brown morocco and cloth, gilt spine. Fine 24 full page illustrations in color and 12 tinted plates and many black and white in text. xix, 549 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Description: Reprint. Quarto (20 x 26cm). Handsomely bound in contemporary full blue morocco with sinuous gilt borders and gilt foliate decoration incorporating red morocco onlays representing berries to the boards, the spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt and with titles in gilt. Gilt dentelles incorporating red morocco onlays. Binder's signature in gilt to the bottom turn-in of the lower board: "ML 1930". All edges gilt. Attractive colour woodblock-printed floral endpapers. Binder's inscription in pencil to the front endpaper: "Bournville School of Art 1930, M. Laud[?], Oct / '30". Illustrated with 24 tipped-in colour plates (with captioned tissue-guards), 12 full-page tinted illustrations, and numerous black and white in-text illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 549pp. A very good copy, the binding square and tight with fading to the spine and some minor scuffs to the raised bands. The contents remain clean and crisp throughout. An appealing copy of Arthur Rackham's edition of 'The Ingoldsby Legends', splendidly bound in the Arts and Crafts Movement style by a student or teacher at the Bournville School of Art, Birmingham. The grand hall which housed the Bournville School of Art was the first public building in Bournville, the model village founded by the Cadbury family. In line with typical Arts and Crafts Movement ideals, and with a specific aim to further the ideas and principles of John Ruskin, the school was originally conceived as a social centre for the village, offering a practical and artistic education for the community. It became more formalised as a 'School of Arts and Crafts' in 1911, later becoming an art college in the 1920s. As a city, Birmingham served as an important centre of the Arts and Crafts movement, with the 'Birmingham Group' of artist-craftsmen cultivating their own distinct style. Predominantly based around the Birmingham School of Art and the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft, the leading figures of the group included Joseph Southall, Arthur and Georgie Gaskin, Bernard Sleigh, Maxwell Armfield, and Charles Gere. An uncommon example of a bookbinding emanating from the dynamic atmosphere of Birmingham's Arts and Crafts Movement.
Seller: Sky Duthie Rare Books, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Price: US$1603.45 + shipping
Description: A handsomely bound copy of Rackham's illustrated edition of Barham's Ingoldsby Legends. The Rackham-illustrated edition of the Ingoldsby Legends was first published in 1898, but was later revised and largely redrawn from 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" (Rackham's 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. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 30-31; Riall, p. 83. Quarto (256 x 203 mm). Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full red morocco, titles to spine in gilt, five raised bands tooled in gilt, single-line gilt rule to covers, vignette to front board in gilt, scrolling foliate turn-ins gilt, red silk endpapers, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece and 23 colour plates mounted on green paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. A near fine copy, with just a few very light blemishes to rear cover.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom