London: Henry Frowde, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Cruikshank, Leech and others.. Beautifully bound in polished red leather with gilt school emblem on the front, 5 raised bands along the spines with gilt titles and decorations in compartments. The spine is a little sunned, a small split near the spine head. Light shelf marks to boards, but remaining clean, bright and square. Marbled page edges and end papers with school prize paste-down inside the front. Pages smooth and clean, with portrait and twenty-five illustrations by Cruikshank, Leech and others. A very well preserved book.

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Bookseller: David's Bookshop (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 035932
Title: The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels (Oxford Edition)
Author: Thomas Ingoldsby
Illustrator: Cruikshank, Leech and others.
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Henry Frowde
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1905
Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾

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Open since 1963, David's Bookshop & Music Shop are located in two linked shops in Eastcheap, Letchworth Garden City, only a few minutes walk from Morrisons supermarket, the railway station and Letchworth Shopping Centre. There is ample parking nearby. As the world's first Garden City, Letchworth has much to offer visitors. We stock books and guides about Letchworth's past and present. At the Bookshop you will find a comprehensive range of fiction, non-fiction, text books, maps and best-sellers in stock. Travellers, walkers, computer users and local historians are especially well catered for. We can supply any book in print and there are always many titles on special offer. The book collector - or second-hand browser - can check out a growing selection of our 15,000 second-hand and antiquarian books available for purchase through the internet. If you have good quality books to sell - bring them in for a quick appraisal and a fair offer. You can rely upon our staff's advice who really know about books. Contact us online at www.davids-bookshops.co.uk.

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12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Raised Band(s): Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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...