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THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS or Mirth & Marvels
by Ingoldsby, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- About Good/No Jacket (as issued)
- Seller
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1885. Book. Illus. by George Cruikshank, John Leech, and John Tenniel. About Good. Hardcover. 2nd edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pseudonym of English clergyman Richard Harris Barham, whose collection of ghost stories, myths, legends, and poems were so popular when first published in the Bentley's Miscellany magazine that they were collected in book form. Quarter leather w/patterned boards, gilt lettering/rule/decoration to spine, 180 pages. A bit cocked w/edgewear all around, worn/scraped corners/spine ends, tape remains to top spine, 1"-2" tears to top spine edges, some moderately shaken signatures, rear hinge split, general wear..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Augustine Funnell Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019507
- Title
- THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS or Mirth & Marvels
- Author
- Ingoldsby, Thomas
- Illustrator
- George Cruikshank, John Leech, and John Tenniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - About Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (as issued)
- Edition
- 2nd edition.
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley & Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1885
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NOISBN, English wit, humour, humor, poetry, myths, legends, ghost stories, poems
- Bookseller catalogs
- HUMOUR; Plays & Poetry; Fiction (hardcover);
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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