Thomas Ingoldsby / Arthur Rackham (ill) - Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels - 1920

"Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels" by Rev. Thomas Ingoldsby and ill. by Arthur Rackham

William Heinemann, London - 1920 Rackham edition - 24 tipped-in colour plates, and 12 tinted plates, by Rackham - condition: very good, in original decorated boards, a few loose leaves, with all plates 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.