Accession number
PML 146023
Creator
Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788-1845.
Published
London : J.M. Dent & Co. ; New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Color plates mounted and protected by letterpress guard sheets.
"Of this large paper edition of the Ingoldsby Legends only 560 copiess have been printed, of which 500 are for sale in England and 50 in America / This is No. [...] of the English Edition".--Half t.p. verso.
Library's copy is no. 365 of an edition of 500, signed by the artist.
"... The colour printing has been done by Messrs. McFarlane and Erskine of Edinburgh, and the text by the Ballantyne Press of London ... "--P. [vii].
"Printed by Ballantyne & Co. Limited ..."--Colophon.
"Of this large paper edition of the Ingoldsby Legends only 560 copiess have been printed, of which 500 are for sale in England and 50 in America / This is No. [...] of the English Edition".--Half t.p. verso.
Library's copy is no. 365 of an edition of 500, signed by the artist.
"... The colour printing has been done by Messrs. McFarlane and Erskine of Edinburgh, and the text by the Ballantyne Press of London ... "--P. [vii].
"Printed by Ballantyne & Co. Limited ..."--Colophon.
Description
xix, 549 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. (part mounted col.) ; 30 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Red morocco inlaid on the front cover and spine with scenes from the "Jackdaw of Rheims", by Birdsall of Northampton; with the publisher's original vellum covers bound in.
Classification
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