Thomas Ingoldsby [Richard Harris Barham] — The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1911. Cloth. A delightful illustrated edition of Thomas Ingoldsby's Legends, complete with sixteen colour plates. A first thus of this popular collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Originally serialised in Bentley's Miscellany from 1837 and first published in book form 1840-46. Illustrated with sixteen colour plates by H. G. Theaker and two vignettes. Collated, complete. Written by Thomas Ingoldsby, the pen-name of Richard Harris Barham, an English cleric of the Church of England, a novelist and poet. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Front hinge is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers and the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: H. G. Theaker. Very Good .