Description: The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq, Richard Bentley & Son, London, 1882, 546pp, 3/4 leather, 6 x 8.5", 8vo Fair condition. Front board is completely detached from binding. Tips are bumped with exposed boards. Edges are scuffed. Wear to front and rear boards. Spine has some minor cracking and chipping, but is still legible and gilt dentelles are mostly intact. Significant wear and chipping to headcap. Marbling on front and rear boards as well as front and rear pastedowns and flyleafs. Marbling on fore edges. Provenance and gift dedication in ink on front endpaper. Illustrated title page in black and red with frontispiece on opposite page; red is still crisp. Toning, foxing, finger-staining, age-staining, and tea-staining throughout textblock. Red engraved borders to all text pages. Binding intact. Includes 20 illustrations. Please see photos. The Ingoldsby Legends is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories, and poems written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham. Although the "legends" are based on folklore or other pre-existing sources, chiefly Kentish, they are mostly humorous parodies or pastiches. FORN-MSB-0124-TUB0002-JC79
Price: 125 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2024-09-28T16:01:51.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: 3/4 leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Thomas Ingoldsby
Publisher: Richard Bentley & Son
Topic: Fairy Tales & Fantasy
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
