The Ingoldsby Legends: or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby Esquire. [First Series]; [... Second Series]; [...Third Series]
by [BARHAM, Richard Harris]
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- Hardcover
- first
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Lebanon, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: Richard Bentley, 1840; 1842; 1847. First editions in book form. 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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- Bookseller
- Bull's Head Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100974
- Title
- The Ingoldsby Legends
- Author
- [BARHAM, Richard Harris]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First editions in book form
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1840; 1842; 1847
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
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- New
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- Rubbing
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- Publisher's cloth
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- Gilt
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