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Up For Sale Today is

The Ingoldsby Legends
or
Mirth & Marvels

by

Thomas Ingoldsby

illustrated by

Arthur Rackham

Leather. 8vo. J. M. Dent & Co, London, UK. 1922. 638 pgs. Illustrated with with 12 color plates  and 90 in-text figures.

Bound in full Riviere & Sons brown leather with gilt rule with black spine label present. Boards are lightly rubbed and worn at the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

The Ingoldsby Legends were first printed during 1837 as a regular series of Richard Bentley's magazine, Bentley's Miscellany, and later in New Monthly Magazine. The legends were illustrated by John Leech and George Cruikshank. They proved immensely popular and were compiled into books published during 1840, 1842 and 1847 by Richard Bentley. They remained popular during the 19th century. The illustrations for this volume proved a turning point in Rackham's life. "In 1898, which was to be a watershed year for Rackham, Dent invited him to produce one hundred black and white illustrations for R.H. Barham's quaintly medievalizing poems and stories The Ingoldsby Legends of Mirth and Marvels. The £150 fee for this important commission bought, in addition, ownership of the originals and copyright.[The] episodic nature and superficial, rollicking humour [of the tales] were well suited to Rackham's talents, presenting him with endless opportunities to exercise his talent for the macabre and the inventive, the fantastic and the knockabout comic" 

CONTENTS: First Series: The Spectre of Tappington; The Nurse's Story; Patty Morgan the Milkmaid's Story; Grey Dolphin; The Ghost; The Cynotaph; Mrs. Botherby's Story; Legend of Hamilton Tighe; The Witches' Frolic; Singular Passage in the Life of the late Henry Harris, D.D.; The Jackdaw of Rheims; A Lay of St. Dunstan; A Lay of St. Gengulphus; The Lay of St. Nicholas; The Lady Rohesia; The Tragedy; Mr. Barney Maguire's Account of the Coronation; The "Monstre" Balloon; Hon. Mr. Sucklethumbkin's Story; Some Account of a New Play; Mr. Peter's Story. Second Series: The Black Mousquetaire; Sir Rupert the Fearless; The Merchant of Venice; The Auto-da-fe; The Ingoldsby Penance; Netley Abbey; Fragment; Nell Cook; Nursery Reminiscences; Aunt Fanny; Misadventures at Margate; The Smuggler's Leap; Bloudie Jacke of Shrewsberrie; The Babes in the Wood; The Dead Drummer; A Row in an Omnibus (Box); The Lay of St. Cuthbert; The Lay of St. Aloys; The Lay of the Old Woman Clothed in Grey; Saint Medard. Third Series: The Lord of Thoulouse; The Wedding-Day; The Blasphemer's Warning; The Brothers of Birchington; The Knight and the Lady; The House-Warming!!; The Forlorn One; Jerry Jarvis's Wig; Unsophisticated Wishes. Miscellaneous Poems: Hermann; or, the Broken Spear; Hints for an Historical Play; Marie Mignot; The Truants; The Poplar; New-Made Honour; My Letters; The Confession; Epigram; Song; Epigram; Song; As I Laye A-Thynkynge.

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Book formats and corresponding sizes  
Name Abbreviations Leaves Pages Approximate cover size (width × height)  
inches cm  
folio 2º or fo 2 4 12 × 19 30.5 × 48  
quarto 4º or 4to 4 8 9½ × 12 24 × 30.5  
octavo 8º or 8vo 8 16 6 × 9 15 × 23  
duodecimo or twelvemo 12º or 12mo 12 24 5 × 7⅜ 12.5 × 19  
sextodecimo or sixteenmo 16º or 16mo 16 32 4 × 6¾ 10 × 17  
octodecimo or eighteenmo 18º or 18mo 18 36 4 × 6½ 10 × 16.5  
trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo 32º or 32mo 32 64 3½ × 5½ 9 × 14  
quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo 48º or 48mo 48 96 2½ × 4 6.5 × 10  
sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo 64º or 64mo 64 128 2 × 3 5 × 7.5  
 

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