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The Ingoldsby Legends : or Mirth and Marvels / by Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.

Accession number
PML 86165
Creator
Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788-1845.
Published
Philadelphia : Carey and Hart, 1844.
Credit line
Gift of Frank Michael Halpern, 1998.
Notes
Thomas Ingoldsby is the pseudonym of Richard Harris Barham.
Originally issued in three series (London : Bentley, 1840-1847). The present edition is a selection of tales, chiefly in verse, from the 1st and 2nd series.
The illustrations are copies of the original etchings after R.H. Dalton Barham (the author's son), George Cruikshank, and John Leech, re-engraved by A. Kollner and lithographed by P.S. Duval. The plates and t.p. are signed A. Koellner, eng., and or Duval, lith. The frontispiece is signed George Cruikshank. The t.p. is copied from the 2nd series.
Description
192 p., front., t.p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. (lithograph) ; 19 cm
Provenance
"Donated by: World-Wide News Bureau Arejas Vitkauskas, 309 Varick Street, Jersey City, N.J. 07302", stamped in red ; from the library of Frank Michael Halpern, bookplate.
Binding
Contemporary blue cloth binding, spine title gilt, by D. Batten, Bookbinder, Clapham Common. (label).
Classification
Department