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Ingoldsby, Thomas & Rackham, Arthur. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. J. M. Dent, 1907.
Price: US$174.00 + shipping
Description: THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS, J. M. Dent, 1907, first revised edition thus, large paper copy (just about the same size as the SIGNED /limited edition), some tanning and light soiling to the spine and margins of the covers, rubbing to the spine extremities, else a good to very good copy in the publishers original olive green cloth binding with gold-gilt lettering and pictorial stamping. Profusely illustrated by Arthur Rackham who provides 24 full color, full page plates, 12 like plates tinted and 66 black and white illustrations within the text. From the collection of prominent Canadian fan Michael Glicksohn.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$303.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1907. 2nd Edition. Description: Olive green cloth, gilt titles and vignettes to front cover and spine. Dark green pictorial endpapers. 24 mounted tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards, 12 full-page tinted illustrations plus numerous b/w drawings. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Large format. Language: English. Book Condition> Good+: All tip-in plates present. Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Ex libris to front paste down with inscription to ffep dated 1909. Lightly tanned pages with very light background foxing to some prelims. DJ Condition> Na. Pages pp[xix], 547. Book Resume: The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels' is a collection of myths, legends, and poetry written by English clergyman Richard Harris Barham, under the pen-name Thomas Ingoldsby Starting as a magazine series, their popularity resulting in a compilation first published in 1840 The stories continued to be successful, seeing edition published throughout the 19th century In 1898 Messrs Dent and Co first published the Ingoldsby Legends with about 100 illustrations of mine This book has met with a very satisfactory reception, but the publishers have felt with me that, with the addition of some new drawings, a careful overhauling would make it worthy of publication in a more important form, in which greater prominence could be given to the illustrations by better and larger reproductions, including a greater number of illustrations in colour To this end the following has been done The frontispiece and the coloured illustration facing page 508 have been specially drawn, and all the other illustrations in colour have been worked on to a considerable extent, and specially coloured for this edition A few illustrations in the early edition have been omitted, and in their place have been added those facing page 254 and on pages vi, 25, 37, 316, 320 and 333 Many of the pen drawings have been reconsidered and worked on again - those which are been worked on to any great extent being now signed with both dates 1898 and 1907 Of the rest, reproductions of the largest scale had been made in all but a few cases, and the text has been revised and highly reset for this edition. PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required.
Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Ingoldsby, Thomas & Rackham, Arthur. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. J. M. Dent, 1907.
Price: US$406.00 + shipping
Description: THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS, J. M. Dent, 1907, first revised edition thus, large paper copy (just about the same size as the SIGNED /limited edition), lower front corner tip bumped, previous owners name on the half-title page, else a vg copy in the publishers original olive green cloth binding with gold-gilt lettering and pictorial stamping. Profusely illustrated by Arthur Rackham who provides 24 full color, full page plates, 12 like plates tinted and 66 black and white illustrations within the text.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$445.55 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Ingoldsby, Thomas & Rackham, Arthur. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. J. M. Dent, 1907.
Price: US$670.10 + shipping
Description: THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS, J. M. Dent, 1907, first revised edition thus, large paper copy (just about the same size as the SIGNED /limited edition), a fine copy in the publishers original olive green cloth binding with gold-gilt lettering and pictorial stamping. Profusely illustrated by Arthur Rackham who provides 24 full color, full page plates, 12 like plates tinted and 66 black and white illustrations within the text.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4to (29 x 23 cm). 549 pp. Signed by Rackham on limitation page. #490 of the large paper edition. Original vellum, silk ties missing. T.e.g. Twenty-four tipped-in color plates on dark green paper with descriptive tissue guards, 12 duotone plates and numerous text illustrations in black and white. Text offset onto plate at p.254, pages 393-96 and others unopened.
Seller: Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA, Jupiter, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$968.58 + shipping
Description: [Children's Illustrated] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, DELUXE SIGNED ISSUE, number 347 of 560 copies. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xx; 549 [3]. With twenty-four mounted coloured plates, captioned tissue guards, twelve illustrations with tint, and sixty-six line drawings. Publisher's gilt decorated white vellum with fore-edge ties, top edge gilt, decorative endpapers. A clean, near fine copy, with some gentle bowing to the vellum as often found, neat gift inscription dated 1909. A particularly bright copy. A classic collection of poetry, ghost stories and legends that are mostly parodies or deliberately humorous. First printed in the Bentley's Miscellany and New Monthly magazines, and first published in book-form between 1840 and 1847.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto, xix, 549pp. Full vellum, title in gilt on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. New gold ribbon ties. Solid text block, bowed covers, some foxing to edges of vellum. Bookplate of Cecil E. Byas affixed to front endpaper. Complete with twenty-four full page colored plates (including frontispiece), twelve printed tints, and multiple in-text black and white illustrations all by Rackham. Total of 560 copies of the large paper edition have been printed, with 500 for sale in England and 50 for sale in America, this being number 213. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase. (Latimore and Haskell 30) (Riall 83). This copy is from the library of Cecil Edward Byas (1865-1938) of Hampstead, England, who collected books and art pieces that have since been donated to various institutions. Most notably, Byas bequeathed a large collection of stone carvings and porcelain sculptures to The Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1259.15 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 377 of 560 copies signed by Rackham, one of 500 for sale in England. Rackham's previous illustrated edition of The Ingoldsby Legends, published in 1898, had no deluxe signed issue. For this edition, it was revised and largely redrawn, 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. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 30-31; Riall, p. 83. Quarto (271 x 212 mm). Contemporary red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, double gilt rule to covers, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Colour frontispiece and 23 colour plates mounted on green paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Presentation inscription to initial binder's blank "Henry Bradshaw-Isherwood given me by the Lady Newton Nov. 21. 1907"; neat pencilled note of acquisition to rear binder's blank dated 1924. Morocco a little dulled, very light toning to contents, light marking to initial few pages, a few tissue-guards and plates a little creased. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
INGOLDSBY (Thomas). The Ingoldsby Legends. J. M. Dent & Co., London & New York, 1907.
Price: US$1291.43 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels. Frontispiece and 23 colour plates mounted with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, decorative title-page in red and brown. First Limited Signed Edition. Large 4to. [290 x 220 x 55 mm]. xix, [i], 549 pp. Bound in the publisher's original vellum, the front cover and spine blocked in gilt, illustrated dark green endleaves, top edge gilt, the others uncut. (Lacking ties, covers a little bowed and marked). [ebc8030]. London: J. M. Dent & Co. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1907. "Of this large paper edition of the Ingoldsby Legends only 560 copies have been printed of which 500 are for sale in England and 50 in America. This is No.131 of the English Edition. [Signed by] Arthur Rackham". This volume came from a different source to the other specials and has a few spots and some light marginal browning. It is still a good copy.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1485.15 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Signed Limited Edition. Number 467 of a limited edition of 560 large-paper copies numbered and signed by the illustrator. Large quarto, original vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, dark green pictorial endpapers, ties sympathetically replaced by the bindery of George Bayntun, tipped in colour frontispiece and 23 plates mounted on green papers with printed tissue-guards, 12 tinted plates, 66 illustrations within the text. Published by J. M. Dent & Co (London), 1907. Some occasional minor browning, a small tear to the upper right corner of the half title page expertly and discreetly repair by the bindery of George Bayntun, front panel a little bowed. A near fine copy. This work is the first signed limited edition of Arthur Rackhams illustrated edition of Barhams Ingoldsby Legends. It was originally published in 1898, however for 1907 it was revised, so that greater prominence could be given to the illustrations by better and larger reproductions, including a greater number of illustrations in colour. (Rackhams Prefactory Note. Latimore & Haskell p. 30.) Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.
Seller: GEORGE HANCOCK RARE BOOKS PBFA, BATH, United Kingdom
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: .xix, 549 pp. Illustrated with 24 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham and numerous text illustrations. Folio, publisher's full gilt-decorated vellum; t.e.g. Ribbon ties are detached but present. First edition.thus; No. 69 of the English Edition, one of 560 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. Smudge to the upper corner of three preliminary leaves; contents otherwise fine. Spine very slightly dust-soiled; a very attractive copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: 549 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 190 of 560 signed by Rackham.Twenty-four tipped-in color plates on dark green paper with lettered tissue guards, plus 12 duotone plates and text illustrations in black and white. Title page printed in red and brown. This edition is a reprint of the 1898 edition with added illustrations and in a larger format. For Rackham the early years of the 20th century were fraught with economic insecurity. By 1907 he was well established: Dent after the success of "Alice in Wonderland" reissued this work as HAMILTON p.95 notes, "The new edition of "Ingoldsby Legends" had a new frontispiece and some new plates, with earlier plates reworked and many recoloured. Cover decorations in gilt bold and bright, vellum clean, spine gilt lettering slightly faded, mostly at foot, edges uncut. Orig. full vellum, new ribbon ties. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good vellum bound edition, no names or marks. Numbered and signed by Arthur Rackham. The ribbon ties on the covers are missing and the vellum has some age spotting and rubs. Photos available. Has lots of beautiful tipped in color plates from Arthur Rackham. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 549 pages; Signed by Illustrator
Seller: Elder's Bookstore, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Ingoldsby, Thomas & Rackham, Arthur. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. J. M. Dent, 1907.
Price: US$1522.60 + shipping
Description: THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS, J. M. Dent, 1907, first revised edition thus, boards bowing at the fore edge as is common with such bindings, else a near fine copy in the publishers original vellum binding with gold-gilt lettering and pictorial stamping with ties present. Profusely illustrated by Arthur Rackham who provides 24 full color, full page plates, 12 like plates tinted and 66 black and white illustrations within the text. 1/560 copies specially bound and SIGNED by the artist.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1614.29 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 111 of 560 copies signed by the artist, one of 500 for sale in England. A review in The Athenaeum praised Rackham's "admirable gift for fantastic design, for human satire, as well as for 'Witches and warlocks, ghosts, goblins, and ghouls'. and the results. are likely to take the town by storm". Rackham's previous illustrated edition of The Ingoldsby Legends, published in 1898, had no deluxe signed issue. For this edition, it was revised and largely redrawn, 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). Latimore & Haskell, pp. 30-31; Riall, p. 83. The Athenaeum, 2 November 1907. Large quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered with pictorial decoration in gilt, dark green pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, renewed yellow silk ties. Colour frontispiece and 23 colour plates mounted on green paper with captioned tissue guards, 12 tinted plates, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Head and foot of spine slightly bumped, spine slightly toned, some foxing and browning, one plate slightly creased: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1694.00 + shipping
Description: Large-paper edition, number 40 of 560 copies, signed by Rackham, 4to., xix, (blank), 549, (blank)pp., 24 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards, 12 tinted plates, and 66 black & white drawings within the text, pictorial endpapers, browning to half-title and limitation leaf, otherwise near-fine, publisher's full vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, as published, lacking ties, slight age-toning, otherwise a near-fine copy.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Ingoldsby, Thomas (Rackham, Arthur). Ingoldsby Legends. J. M. Dent, 1907.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. A sharp copy of this limited edition of 560 copies SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy SIGNED by Rackham in collector's condition. We buy First Editions of Children's books.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.