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

London, Macmillan and Co. 1911. Cloth. The famous Ingoldsby Legends, first edition with colourful illustrations by H. G. Theaker. A popular collection of myths, legends, ghost stories, and poetry by English clergyman Richard Harris Barham, published under pen-pane Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor. First serialised in 1837, they became an immediate success and remained popular through the nineteenth century. Featuring the poem 'The Jackdaw of Rheims,' as well as early transcriptions of the song 'A Flanklyn's Dogge.'With a colourful frontispiece and other colour plates by H. G. Theaker, first thus.Featuring P.T.S. Mountain View Johannesburg prize bookplate awarded to R. N. Seeman in 1922. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, extremities of spine and boards lightly bumped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: H. G. Theaker. Very Good .