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7 3/4 in. x 10 in., half-title; mounted color-printed (1907) frontispiece, with plain tissue guard; title-page printed in red, brown and tan, with Rackham designs; illustrator's note (with drawing on the reverse); publisher's note; contents; list of illustrations (full-color, tint & black & white drawings); preface to first series (1840), & second edition (1843). [i]-xix, I-549 pp. Illustrated with 24 full-page, tipped-in color illustrations, mounted on dark olive-green sheets, with title-printed white paper guards, and 12 full-page illustrations printed in tint, and 66 black & white drawings by Arthur Rackham, in the text. Olive-green cloth, with gilt titling and design on the spine, and gilt titling and another Rackham design on the front cover; dark olive green endpapers with a Rackham design printed in dark blue; top-edge gilt. Gift inscription in ink at the top of the half-title: F. W. B. Cupins From C.A.L Xmas, 1907. The spine ends, and outer hinges show some wear, light fading to covers. Tan-spotting to the tissue guard at the frontispiece, some scattered tan-spotting to some page margins, 2 inch vertical tear to lower margin of pp. 3-4. "[-] This edition is a reprint of the 1898 edition, with added illustrations and larger pages. [-] There is a trade edition bound in olive-green cloth with the same pictorial stamping in gold as the limited edition, and gold lettering [-]." (-Latimore & Haskell, Rackham Bibliography; pp. 30-31). Weight: 4 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item. Seller Inventory # ABE-652803748
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels by ...
Publisher: London J. M. Dent & Co. New York E. P. Dutton & Co. 1907. English trade edition. Printed by Ballantyne & Co. Limited at the Ballantyne Press, Tavistock Street, London.
Publication Date: 1907
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
