INGOLDSBY LEGENDS - 1st, 1907 - RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED FAIRYTALES, FOLKLORE, MYTHS

THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS, OR MIRTH AND MARVELS

Book Details + Condition: J.M. Dent and Co. and E.P. Dutton (London and New York). First American Trade Edition, 1907. Hardcover with gilt-decorated sage green boards and spine (measuring approximately 10.25" x 8"). 549 pages. Beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Complete with 24 tipped-in color plates, which retain their descriptive guards - save for one missing guard to frontispiece. The celebrated book is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poems written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, which is the pen-name of English clergyman Richard Harris Barham. Ingoldsby’s collection of sagas and legends drew inspiration from folklore and legal jargon, chronicles of monks, local superstitions and myths, with brief snatches of words from other languages including German and Welsh. Some stories include: