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The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
by RACKHAM, ARTHUR: INGOLDSBY, Thomas:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, William Heinemann, 1907 1st thus, revised & reset from 1898 1st edition.. Tall Hardback, approx 10 x 7.75 inches. Bound in half calf red leather binding With decorative gilt paneled boards with gilt lettering to spine and marbled boards. Page edges rough cut. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Some rubbing to edges, small little nick centre of spine. Inside pages generally clean and tight. Frontis faint crease lower corner. Title page tanned. Plates all clean and bright. Inside pages all very clean and tight. 549pp. 36 plates; 24 colour ‘tipped-in’ plates on dark green full-page mounts, all with titled tissue guards. 12 tinted full page illustrations. Many b&w illustrations within text.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
- Author
- RACKHAM, ARTHUR: INGOLDSBY, Thomas:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, William Heinemann, 1907 1st thus, revised & reset from 1898 1st edition.
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books RACKHAM, ARTHUR, INGOLDSBY, Thomas: The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels., William Heinemann, 1907, 24 colour plates, 12 tinted illustrations, leather binding
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- 1st Thus
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- Calf
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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
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