Green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and signature on the front board.

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Ingoldsby Legends; or Mirth and Marvels London: J.M Dent, 1907. Ingoldsby, Thomas [pseud. Barham, Richard Harris. The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham in Pictorial Binding. 1907 4to. – Illustrated with 24 coloured plates tipped-in on dark green paper with captioned tissue-guards 12 tinted plates, and black in-text & full-page illustrations. The “Ingoldsby legends” by the English cleric Barham (1788-1845), is a collection of poetry, legends, myths and ghost stories, which appeared first in a collected form in 3 series in 1840, 1842 and 1847. With this publication, Rackham developed his best style of fantasy writing. It would influence a generation of children and artists. The first edition illustrated by Rackham was published in 1898