INGOLDSBY THOMAS BARHAM RICHARD RACKHAM ARTHUR (28 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). Compact, Illustrated edition of the popular Ingoldsby Legends, a collection of often humorous tales involving ghosts, witches, historical figures & mysteries that draw on, a frequently send up, existing legends. With 12 full colour plates by Rackham plus b/w illustrations within the text. 8vo. Some fading to gilt on spine, Rubbing to edges and joints. Tanning to end-papers. Light cracking to hinges, but binding sound and contents clean. Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). Reprint. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in tan buckram covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and the upper board along with decoration by the artist. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. A dust wrapper is not present. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. The 1920 edition of The Ingoldsby Legends illustrated by Arthur Rackham is a lavish, highly collectible volume combining Richard Harris Barham's comic?gothic tales with some of Rackham's most atmospheric Golden Age illustrations. It is prized today for its craftsmanship, its place in Rackham's career, and its distinctive blend of humour, folklore, and the supernatural. The Ingoldsby Legends is a collection of humorous, often macabre stories and poems written by Richard Harris Barham under the pen name Thomas Ingoldsby. The tales draw on English folklore, medieval legends, ghost stories, and satirical verse. They were originally published in the 1840s and became a Victorian favourite. The 1920 Rackham?illustrated edition is one of the most celebrated illustrated versions, produced during the tail end of the Golden Age of Illustration. Ref PPP 2.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. xix, 548 p. 26 cm. Has 34 out of the 36 called-for tipped-in colour plates and 66 b&w in-text illustrations. Green cloth with gold print. Some scuffing to cloth. Dampstain on front. Holes in hinges. Text block edge roughened. Pages 33 to 39 have large tears in margins. Foxing to first pages including frontispiece tissue guard. A few pages uncut. A collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry, supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of Barham, an English clergyman. The amusing stories have been illustrated by many artists over the years, including John Leech, George Cruikshank, John Tenniel, but surely Arthur Rackham is the most suitable for these tales.

First Rackham illustrated edition hard back binding in half cherry red leather, the spine divided into six panels, lettered in the second, tooling to the others, strawberry cloth sides, top edge gilt, pale blue and rose marble paper end sheets. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains (xxiii), 638 pp with 12 tissue guarded colour plates, 90 monochrome text figures throughout. Front board detached. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrateur). First Thus. First thus edition containing the illustrations of Arthur Rackham. Green cloth stamped in gilt with titling and illustrations on the cover and the spine. Pale green illustrated end papers. Gilt top edge with rough cut fore and bottom edges. Some of the pages have been carelessly cut. The book is tightly bound and firm, except for the first free endpaper which is detached and present. All corners are somewhat softened and rounded, with a distincly bumped upper front corner. The title page is darkly foxed, but the remainder is bright and clean. Twelve full color illustrations with tissue guards and numerous full page and in text black and white illustrations. These poems and tales originally printed in magazines staring in the mid 19th century were later compiled into omnibus form. These were based on real folktales and legends, but are changed and embellished by Ingoldsby. xxiii, 638 pp. Antiquarian, Fiction, Folklore, Folktales, Parody, Humor, Omnibus edition, Rackham. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

xxiii, 638 pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham in color and black and white. 8vo, old half brown calf; gilt spine; t.e.g. by Brentano's. A few minor scuffs to the binding; one corner bumped; tight and sound.

Cloth. Etat : Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). First edition. The first Arthur Rackham illustrated edition of these popular myths, legends and ghost stories from Richard Harris Barham. The first Arthur Rackham illustrated edition of this popular anthology.In the publisher's decorative cloth binding.Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece, eleven coloured plates and numerous vignettes by a leading figure of the Golden Age of British book illustration, Arthur Rackham. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator.The Ingoldsby Legends were written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of English clergyman Richard Harris Barham. The legends (which were first printed throughout 1837 in Bentley's Miscellany and later in The New Monthly Magazine) proved immensely popular throughout the 19th century, and were subsequently published in many compiled editions. In the original cloth binding, with decorative gilt. Externally, smart, with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Hinges are tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age toned, but generally clean, with scattered spotting to the first couple pages, including title and contents. Good. book.

Hard back binding in publisher's original light brown cloth covers, dark brown designs and gilt lettering to the spine and the upper panel, lower page edges untrimmed, Heinemann device to lower panel. Quarto 10¼'' x 8'' [xx], 549 pp. 24 mounted colour plates on thick light brown card stock with captioned paper guards, 12 tinted illustrations, many monochrome illustrations in the text. Light surface rubbing across the spine tips, small repair to the top of the lower spine gutter, ink name dated 1924 to the front free end paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).

Hardcover. Reprint. Quarto, [v]-xix, 549 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and black decoration to spine. Mild shelf wear, including rubbing/scuffing to boards; bumping with slight material loss to head, tail, and corners; cocking to spine (boards shaken, no shelf lean, binding intact, gutter visible at page 162); age-toning/foxing to text block; previous owner's signature on front free endpaper; light age-toning to interior pages, illustrations by Rackham and text remain clear and legible. Shelved in Case 14. 1398918. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

xix, 549 pp. Illustrated with 24 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham, plus tinted illustrations and numerous black and white text illustrations. 4to, publisher's decorated tan cloth in dust jacket. An unworn, tight and sound copy in a dust jacket with a slightly tanned spine, tiny chips, and light edgewear.

Etat : Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original light brown cloth covers, gilt and dark brown lettering to spine and upper panel, gilt college crest of arms to upper panel, grey paper end papers. Quarto 10½'' x 8'' x, 549 [pp]. 24 mounted colour plates on thick grey card stock, 12 tinted plates, monochrome illustrations in the text. Gilt to spine oxidised, 'Marlborough College' label and personal bookplate of the recipient to front end paper and paste down, corners and tips slightly turned-in and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).

Hard back binding in publisher's original light brown cloth covers, dark brown designs and gilt lettering to spine and upper panel, lower page edges untrimmed, Heinemann device to lower panel. Quarto 10¼" x 8" xx, 549 [pp]. 24 mounted colour plates on thick light brown card stock with captioned paper guards, 12 tinted illustrations, many monochrome illustrations in the text. Upper bottom corner pushed-in, light surface rubbing across spine tips, upper corners sharp and pointed, without any foxing and in clean and firm condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).

xix, 549 pp. Illustrated with 24 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham, 12 tinted illustrations, and numerous text illustrations. Large thick 8vo, publisher's gilt-decorated pale green cloth; t.e.g. Second, expanded edition. Cloth rubbed at extremities; tight and sound; contents fine.

Three Quarter Leather. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket As Issued. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator) (illustrateur). First American Edition. Nicely BOUND COPY OF THE RACKHAM EDITION. Illustrated with tipped-in, color plates, numerous text illustrations by Arthur Rackham. First american edition, bound in 3/4 green leather over green cloth boards, 5 raised bands at spine, gilt spine titling and pictorial devices stamped to spine compartments, 4to, 549pp. (minor light toning to edges). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 7 3/4 in. x 10 in., half-title; mounted color-printed (1907) frontispiece, with plain tissue guard; title-page printed in red, brown and tan, with Rackham designs; illustrator's note (with drawing on the reverse); publisher's note; contents; list of illustrations (full-color, tint & black & white drawings); preface to first series (1840), & second edition (1843). [i]-xix, I-549 pp. Illustrated with 24 full-page, tipped-in color illustrations, mounted on dark olive-green sheets, with title-printed white paper guards, and 12 full-page illustrations printed in tint, and 66 black & white drawings by Arthur Rackham, in the text. Olive-green cloth, with gilt titling and design on the spine, and gilt titling and another Rackham design on the front cover; dark olive green endpapers with a Rackham design printed in dark blue; top-edge gilt. Gift inscription in ink at the top of the half-title: F. W. B. Cupins From C.A.L Xmas, 1907. The spine ends, and outer hinges show some wear, light fading to covers. Tan-spotting to the tissue guard at the frontispiece, some scattered tan-spotting to some page margins, 2 inch vertical tear to lower margin of pp. 3-4. "[-] This edition is a reprint of the 1898 edition, with added illustrations and larger pages. [-] There is a trade edition bound in olive-green cloth with the same pictorial stamping in gold as the limited edition, and gold lettering [-]." (-Latimore & Haskell, Rackham Bibliography; pp. 30-31). Weight: 4 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item.

Hardcover. Second Edition (Edition de Luxe). tall thick 8vo., 549 pp., VG-; leather-bound, red boards, gilt lettering and motif to five-paneled spine; cocking to spine, no shelf lean; light scratching to boards, black scuff marks towards top edge of front board and hinge; rubbing with superficial material loss to bottom edge of boards; slight cocking to boards, boards shaken, binding intact; red top, age-toning/mild wear to text-block; starting hinge to verso of p. 549 and recto of bfep, closed tear towards top of bfep (stuck to back paste-down); mild age-toning and occasional foxing/creasing to interior (text legible), waving to endpapers; tipped-in full-color frontispiece and plates excellent and protected by tissue guards, plates affixed to a dark green thicker paper; pub. 1907 by J. M. Dent & Co. stated to title page; differences between First Dent & Co. Edition (pub. 1898) and this edition stated to Prefatory Note (p. v) by Rackham; "It has been the desire of the Publishers to here present the 'Ingoldsby Legends' in something like an 'Edition Definitive de Luxe" stated to Publishers' Note (p. "a3," technically p. vii); orange silk ribbon; LP consignment; shelved Case 14 Heavy item: Please contact us for international/expedited shipping costs. 1286191. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Etat : Very Good. First Rackham edition hard back binding in publisher's original olive green cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine and the upper panel. Quarto 10½'' x 8¼''. 24 mounted colour plates on to thick olive green paper with captioned tissue guards, 12 full-page tinted plates. From the private library of Xenia Noelle Lowinsky with Eric Gill illustrated bookplate to the front paste down. In Very Good clean, tight and bright condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).

Cloth. Etat : Very Good Indeed. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). The expanded second edition of Arthur Rackham's beautifully illustrated 'Ingoldsby Legends', complete with Rackham's beautiful tipped in colourful ink illustrations. The second edition of Rackham's illustrated Ingoldsby Legends, which was first published in 1898. This is the trade edition of the expanded second edition of this work, with additional plates.Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, twenty-three tipped-in colour plates, twelve monochrome plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.'The Ingoldsby Legends' is a collection of whimsical legends, myths, and ghost stories by Thomas Ingoldsby, the pen-name of clergyman Richard Harris Barham.Former owner's inscription dated 1908 to half title.By Thomas Ingoldsby, the pen name for Richard Barham. Barham was a cleric of the Church of England, and is best known for this work. Barham was also known for his contributions to the 'Edinburgh Review' and the 'Literary Gazette'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Back strip lightly age toned, with boards bright. Externally, excellent. Contemporary inscription to half title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned to perimeters, but generally clean and bright, with offsetting and light spotting to title page. Very Good Indeed. book.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good Indeed. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). Arthur Rackham's beautifully illustrated 'Ingoldsby Legends', complete with Rackham's signature colourful ink illustrations. A smart reprint of Arthur Rackham's illustrated 'Ingoldsby Legends', expanded from his 1898 edition with the addition of more plates.Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, twenty-three tipped-in colour plates, twelve monochrome plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.'The Ingoldsby Legends' is a collection of whimsical legends, myths, and ghost stories by Thomas Ingoldsby, the pen-name of clergyman Richard Harris Barham.By Thomas Ingoldsby, the pen name for Richard Barham. Barham was a cleric of the Church of England, and is best known for this work. Barham was also known for his contributions to the 'Edinburgh Review' and the 'Literary Gazette'. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Very minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Some light marks to the boards and spine. Spine is a little faded. Spots to the fore edge. Bookseller's label to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some scattered spots. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Bound by Riviere & Son, London. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham in full color and b/w. 12 plates. 8vo. Full blue Levant raised bands and compartments on spine heavily decorated. All edges gilt. Elegant, marbled endpapers. A beautiful copy.

[Children's Illustrated] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, DELUXE SIGNED ISSUE, number 347 of 560 copies. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.xx; 549 [3]. With twenty-four mounted coloured plates, captioned tissue guards, twelve illustrations with tint, and sixty-six line drawings. Publisher's gilt decorated white vellum with fore-edge ties, top edge gilt, decorative endpapers. A clean, near fine copy, with some gentle bowing to the vellum as often found, neat gift inscription dated 1909. A particularly bright copy. A classic collection of poetry, ghost stories and legends that are mostly parodies or deliberately humorous. First printed in the Bentley's Miscellany and New Monthly magazines, and first published in book-form between 1840 and 1847. Signed.

Leather. Etat : Near Fine. Arthur Rackham (illustrateur). Illustrated in colour by Arthur Rackham, and in a signed full calf Bayntun-Riviere binding, this is a beautiful example of this anthology of myths and legends. A beautiful edition of this anthology of myths and legends, in a full calf signed Bayntun-Riviere binding, and featuring the colour illustrations of renowned artist Arthur Rackham.Illustrated with numerous vignette illustrations, a colour frontispiece and eleven further full colour plates, all the work of leading figure of Golden Age of British book illustration, Arthur Rackham. Collated, complete.This is a collection of whimsical legends, myths, and ghost stories written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually the pen-name of clergyman Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first printed in 1837 as a regular series in magazine 'Bentley's Miscellany', and due to their popularity were compiled and published in book form. Although based on real legends and mythology, they are deliberately humorous parodies of medieval folklore and poetry. From the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, an extravagant socialite and renowned beauty of the Edwardian period. Impeccably connected, Pleydell-Bouverie was also the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII, and rumoured to be a lover of King Edward VIII. A sparkling figure of fashionable society, her friends included Nancy Mitford, Coco Chanel, Winston Churchill, and Fred Astaire. This work is from the sale of Pleydell-Bouverie"s library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire. She purchased the home in 1940, redesigning the interior and amassing an impressive library, featuring many examples of her own bookbinding. In a full calf signed binding, with gilt detailing. Externally, lovely. Rubbing to front joint, with board holding firm. Binder's stamp to verso of front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Etat : Near fine. Etat de la jaquette : very good +. Rackham, Arthur (illustrateur). First Edition. First trade edition with additional Rackham illustrations on enlarged paper, quarto size, 568 pp., in original dust jacket. This book was first published in 1898 with only twelve illustrations, this being the first trade edition of the newly enlarged version of 1907, which had many new illustrations. British illustrator Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is credited with renewing interest in book illustration at a vital moment of advances in printing technology. The subtle colours and thin feral lines were unlike anything that had come before, as if plucked from the fog of a wild imagination, breathing new life into the whole of children's book illustration. The somewhat grotesque quality of Rackham's figures are perfectly suited for the metrical myths, legends, and ghost stories written by Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845), an English clergyman who is best known by his pen name Thomas Ingoldsby. ___DESCRIPTION: Publisher's olive-green buckram with gilt pictorial stamping and lettering to the front and spine, top-edge gilt, fore- and tail-edges uncut, illustrated olive endpapers, title in red and olive-green within pictorial border, richly illustrated with twenty-four colour plates mounted on heavy olive paper with captioned tissue guards, twelve full-page tinted illustrations, and sixty-six drawings within the text; quarto size (10 1/8" by 7 7/8"), pagination: [i-viii] ix-xix 1-549, reprint of the 1898 edition on enlarged paper with additional illustrations, first trade thus. With the scarce original brown dust jacket printed in dark-green, the front panel with an upper banner and lettering which mirror the binding, price on spine of 15/- net, back panel with publisher's ad for "Some Acceptable Presents" which includes Palgrave's "Golden Treasury" illustrated by R. Anning Bell and two others, both flaps blank. ___CONDITION: A near fine copy, the cloth binding clean, the gilt on both front and spine bright and unrubbed, the corners straight with a faint hint of rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, internally bright and free of prior owner markings, the plates all present as called for; foxing limited to a couple of faint spots on the title-page, minor slight shelf wear at edges (none so much as to cause fraying to the cloth), overall a near fine copy. The dust jacket is quite uncommon and suffers only from some minor chipping to joints and corners (with old prior owner tape repair to these on verso), none obscuring the text, overall very bright and clean; very good. ___CITATION: Latimore and Haskell, p. 30; Riall, p. 83. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

.xix, 549 pp. Illustrated with 24 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham and numerous text illustrations. Folio, publisher's full gilt-decorated vellum; t.e.g. Ribbon ties are detached but present. First edition.thus; No. 69 of the English Edition, one of 560 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. Smudge to the upper corner of three preliminary leaves; contents otherwise fine. Spine very slightly dust-soiled; a very attractive copy.

The Second and Best Trade Edition [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. INGOLDSBY, Thomas (pseud. of Richard Harris Barham). The Ingoldsby Legends. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham A.R.W.S. London: J.M. Dent & Co.,1907. Second (and best) trade edition. Large quarto (9 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches; 251 x 193 mm.). Twenty-four color plates tipped-in on brown stock with captioned tissue guards, twelve tinted plates, and sixty-six drawings in black and white. Publisher's olive green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, tope edge gilt, others uncut. Armorial bookplate on front paste down. Scattered insect damage to boards, but not through cloth. A good copy only. "In 1898 Messrs. Dent and Co. first published 'The Ingoldsby Legends,' with about one hundred illustrations of mine. This book has met with a very satisfactory reception, but the publisher's have felt with me that, with the addition of new drawings, a careful overhauling would make it worthy of publication in a more important form, in which greater prominence could be given to the illustrations by better and larger reproductions, including a greater number of illustrations in colour. "To this end the following has been done: "The frontispiece and the coloured illustration facing page 508 have been specially drawn, and all the other illustrations in colour have been worked on to a considerable extent, and specially coloured for this edition. A few illustrations in the earlier edition have been omitted and in their place have been added those facing page 254 and on pages vi, 25, 37, 316, 320, and 333. "Many of the pen drawings have been reconsidered and worked on again - those which have been worked on to any great extent being now signed with both dates, 1898 and 1907. Of the rest, reproductions on a larger scale have been made in all but a few cases, and the text has been revised and entirely reset for this edition' (Rackham, Prefatory Note). Latimore and Haskell, pp. 30-31. Riall, p. 83.

The Second and Best Trade Edition [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. INGOLDSBY, Thomas (pseud. of Richard Harris Barham). The Ingoldsby Legends. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham A.R.W.S. London: J.M. Dent & Co.,1907. Second (and best) trade edition. Large quarto (9 7/8 x 7 5/8 inches; 251 x 193 mm.). Twenty-four color plates tipped-in on brown stock with captioned tissue guards, twelve tinted plates, and sixty-six drawings in black and white. Original green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, tope edge gilt, others uncut. Mild wear to cloth boards, but still a very good copy. "In 1898 Messrs. Dent and Co. first published 'The Ingoldsby Legends,' with about one hundred illustrations of mine. This book has met with a very satisfactory reception, but the publisher's have felt with me that, with the addition of new drawings, a careful overhauling would make it worthy of publication in a more important form, in which greater prominence could be given to the illustrations by better and larger reproductions, including a greater number of illustrations in colour. "To this end the following has been done: "The frontispiece and the coloured illustration facing page 508 have been specially drawn, and all the other illustrations in colour have been worked on to a considerable extent, and specially coloured for this edition. A few illustrations in the earlier edition have been omitted and in their place have been added those facing page 254 and on pages vi, 25, 37, 316, 320, and 333. "Many of the pen drawings have been reconsidered and worked on again - those which have been worked on to any great extent being now signed with both dates, 1898 and 1907. Of the rest, reproductions on a larger scale have been made in all but a few cases, and the text has been revised and entirely reset for this edition' (Rackham, Prefatory Note). Latimore and Haskell, pp. 30-31. Riall, p. 83.

Etat de la jaquette : dj. Second (and best) trade edition. Large quarto. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Mild wear, spine mildly sunned, but still an excellent copy in a later tan pictorial dust jacket printed in black. Twenty-four color plates tipped-in on brown stock with captioned tissue guards, twelve tinted plates, and sixty-six drawings in black and white. With the bookplate of Maude M. Monell on front paste-down. Written under the nom-de-plume of clergyman Richard Harris Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends was a collection of myths and ghost stories that blended humor with the grotesque. Largely composed in rhyme, the stories emphasize figures such as saints and gods; and they were published to delight a Victorian audience increasingly interested in sensationalist gothic literature. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Latimore and Haskell 30-31. Riall 83.

Signed limited edition, number 377 of 560 copies signed by Rackham, one of 500 for sale in England. Rackham's previous illustrated edition of The Ingoldsby Legends, published in 1898, had no deluxe signed issue. For this edition, it was revised and largely redrawn, so that "greater prominence could be given to the illustrations by better and larger reproductions, including a greater number of illustrations in colour" (Prefatory Note). These popular tales, which were purportedly based on the author's discovery of old documents, were in fact mostly reworkings of known narrative sources such as Kentish myth and Sir Walter Scott. Thomas Ingoldsby was the pseudonym of Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845), whose "knowledge of such areas as heraldry and witchcraft also lends a degree of authenticity to the Legends" (ODNB). Initially appearing in the serial Bentley's Miscellany in 1837, the tales were first published in book form in 1840 and inspired numerous illustrators. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 30-31; Riall, p. 83. Quarto (271 x 212 mm). Colour frontispiece and 23 colour plates mounted on green paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Contemporary red morocco, spine lettered in gilt, double gilt rule to covers, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Presentation inscription to initial binder's blank "Henry Bradshaw-Isherwood given me by the Lady Newton Nov. 21. 1907"; neat pencilled note of acquisition to rear binder's blank dated 1924. Morocco a little dulled, very light toning to contents, light marking to initial few pages, a few tissue-guards and plates a little creased. A very good copy.