THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OR MIRTH AND MARVELS

by Thomas Ingoldsby Esquire. First -Third Series by Richard Harris Barham, Thomas Ingoldsby

$1,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

London: Richard Bentley, 1840-1842-1847. Octavo, three volumes: [i-v] vi-vii [viii-ix] x-xii [xiii-xiv] [1] 2-338 [339] [340: printer's imprint]; [i-v] vi-vii [viii-x] [1] 2-288; [i-iii] iv-vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-364 , 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), original decorated brown cloth, 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 untrimmed, yellow coated endpapers. Second edition of volume one, first editions of volumes two and three. (#170395) More Details about THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OR MIRTH AND MARVELS BY THOMAS INGOLDSBY ESQUIRE. [FIRST]-THIRD SERIES

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