Arthur Rackham - Ingoldsby Legends - Expanded Edition - 1913

"Ingoldsby Legends" by Rev. Ingoldsby and illustrated by Arthur Rackham

J.M. Dent, London - 1913, larger and expanded Rackham edition from the original 1898 Rackham edition; this is the much more impressive edition) - 549p, 25cmx20cm - 24 colored plates and many in-text b/w illustrations by Arthur Rackham - condition: in good condition, some rubbing to boards, in original decorated blue binding, some page foxing. illustrated endpapers, all plates and illustrations are present.

The Ingoldsby Legends (full title: The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels) is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham.