The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby Esquire. [First Series]; [. Second Series]; [.Third Series]

[BARHAM, Richard Harris]

Published by Richard Bentley 1840; 1842; 1847, London, 1840

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3 vols. 8vo. Engraved titles printed in red and black, 17 etched plates George Cruikshank (8) and John Leech (9), and 2 engraved portraits. v, [3], 338, [2, appendix]; vii, [1], 288; vi, [2], 364 pp., with half-titles. Full brown-green morocco, spine gilt with red morocco onlays, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g., publisher's cloth bindings bound-in, by Riviere & Son; very slight rubbing to joints in places, vol. 3 with a small stain to fore-edge and few fore-edge rough. Bookseller ticket of Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow A handsome set of the first book appearance of The Ingoldsby Legends, following periodical printings in Bentley's Miscellany and the New Monthly Magazine in 1837.REFERENCE: Cohn 50; Sadleir 156b/e/f.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby Esquire. [First Series]; [. Second Series]; [.Third Series]
• Publisher: Richard Bentley 1840; 1842; 1847, London
• Publication Date: 1840
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First editions in book form.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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