The Ingoldsby legends, or, Mirth and marvels / with twenty illustrations on steel by Cruikshank, Leech, and Barham.
Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845)
Category
Books
Date
1936
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256085
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii, [3], 546, [2] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 20 cm. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "10/6". Pencil code (price?) on rear free endpaper: "^/-". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full green morocco; double blind fillet to form an outer border on boards; blind fillets to form a geometric pattern on boards with small blind stamped x's; sewn onto five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The Ingoldsby legends', 'or Mirth and marvels', 'By R.H. Barham' and 'Illustrated by G. Cruikshank & J. Leech'; small gilt stamped x's in top and bottom spine compartments; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845), author George Cruikshank (London 1792 - London 1878), illustrator John Leech (London 1817 - London 1864), illustrator