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The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels
by Ingoldsby, Thomas [Illustrated by Arthur Rackham]
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1920. Undetermined. very good. reprint. xix, 549pp. Quarto. Illustrated dust jacket over slate-coloured cloth boards with decorations and titles in gilt and black to front board and spine. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped and rubbed; light shelfwear to lower edges of boards. Binding lightly shaken. Chipping to head and tail of jacket spine and top and bottom jacket folds (neatly reinforced with tape on verso). Small bookseller's stamp front pastedown, else internally clean. very good A collection of myths, legends and ghost stories with illustrations by Arthur Rackham throughout. Reprints the first edition to contain colour illustrations. Includes 24 colour illustrations tipped onto special paper with captioned tissue guards, 12 full paged tinted illustrations, and many more in-text illustrations all by Rackham. Uncommon in the dust jacket. Issued without the preparatory information (4 pages) included in the first printing of the colour-illustrated edition. 1920
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 137830
- Title
- The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels
- Author
- Ingoldsby, Thomas [Illustrated by Arthur Rackham]
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- Children's Book|Arthur Rackham|Folk Tales|Illustrated Book|Ingoldsby Legends|Legends
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Aquila Books
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Calgary, Alberta
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- Chipping
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- Spine
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- Tail
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- Shelfwear
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- Cloth
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- First Edition
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Quarto
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