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The Ingoldsby Legends; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
by Ingoldsby, Thomas [Rackham, Arthur]
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- Condition
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About This Item
London: J.M. Dent & Company, 1907. Limited Edition. Vellum. Very good. Signed by the illustrator Arthur Rackham, a limited edition of The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby, complete with 24 colored plates.. 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.
Synopsis
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first printed in 1837 as a regular series in Bentley's Miscellany and later in New Monthly Magazine. The legends were illustrated by John Leech and George Cruikshank. They proved immensely popular and were compiled into books published in 1840, 1842 and 1847 by Richard Bentley.
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- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Ingoldsby Legends; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
- Author
- Ingoldsby, Thomas [Rackham, Arthur]
- Illustrator
- Signed by the illustrator Arthur Rackham, a limited edition of The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby, complete with 24 color
- Format/Binding
- Vellum
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1907
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