Ghost Thomas Ingoldsby The Ingoldsby legends, 1st-3rd Series 1840-1847 1st UK

Description: Ghost Thomas Ingoldsby The Ingoldsby legends, First-Third Series 1840-1847 1st UK VG First UK edition, first printing with three volumes: Series 1: [ii Blank] [x] [1 Frontispiece] 2-338 [i Appendix] [i Printer's imprint] Series 2: [ii Blank] [viii] [1 Frontispiece] 2-338 [ii Blank]. Series 3: [ii Blank] [viii] [1 Frontispiece] 2-364 [ii Blank]. Nineteen inserted plates comprising seventeen etchings by Buss (one), George Cruikshank (eight), and John Leech (eight), and two engraved portraits of Barham, one after Lane, the other after "Dalton" (i.e. Rev. Dalton Barham). Publisher: London Richard Bentley. Rebound in decorated brown leather. front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panels stamped in blind, half-title leaves present in all three volumes, inserted etched title leaves (the first printed in orange-red and black, the others printed in burnt-umber and black), edges marbled, marbled coated endpapers. Book Condition: Very Good. light foxing to front pages. Text is clean. Classic collection of Victorian burlesques on Romantic conventions, and of "chimney-corner" tales. Mixture of prose and verse, several humorous ghost stories e.g. "Jerry Jarvis's Wig" and a straight tale of terror "Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris, D. D.," an effectively Hoffmannesque piece. Parodies the "Blackwood" school of fiction with considerable wit and style. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-14. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 881. Bleiler (1978), p. 15. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Sadleir 156c (binding a), e, and f. Cohn 44.

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