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1911 The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth And Marvels
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Description
Author's Presentation Copy, Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
A presentation copy, with blind stamp to title page.
The first edition of the work with colourful illustrations, originally published without in 1898.
In publisher's blue decorative cloth binding, with blue gilt to fore edge.
Includes a colourful frontispiece and a further 15 colourful plates in the striking style of British illustrator Harry George Theaker. Collated, complete.
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poems written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, a psueudonym for English clergyman Richard Harris Barham.
Condition
In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Bumping to head and tail of the spine, and slightly to corners of boards. Small mark to rear board. Light spotting to endpapers with offset to free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are clean and bright. Blind stamp to title page.
Very Good
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