The Tragedy; One of the Ingoldsby Legends. Prefatory note

by James Dille by Thomas Ingoldsby, James Dille, Richard Harris Barham pseud

$15 · Offered by Bolerium Books

Chicago: The Press of the Silver Quoin, 1944. Hardcover. 9p., rubricated heads and numerals, hardbound in 7x5 inch boards, cloth backstrip, and a printed paper cover label. A nice production; as it were, fine-press once removed. Casing is a little worn, toned and scratched; lies flat and square, a good to very good copy. Pressman and introducer Dille has reduced the original story to expert doggerel; I think, he says, my preference for this particular legend

• Binding: Hardcover

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