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

London, Oxford University Press, 1938. Leather. A smartly bound later edition of this collection of legends, with illustrations. Later edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and numerous in-text images. A collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poems written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor. First printed during 1837 as a regular series in the magazine Bentley's Miscellany and later in New Monthly Magazine, they proved immensely popular and were compiled into books by 1840. Written by Richard Harris Barham, an English cleric of the Church of England, a novelist and a humorous poet. He was known generally by his pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby. In the original full crushed morocco with gilt. Externally, smart with rubbing and light fading to the spine. Minor wear to the extremities. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .