The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth And Marvels. Rackham, Arthur (Illus.); Ingoldsby, Thomas, Pseud. Of Richard Harris Barham.

Signed limited edition, number 111 of 560 copies signed by the artist, one of 500 for sale in England. A review in The Athenaeum praised Rackham's "admirable gift for fantastic design, for human satire, as well as for 'Witches and warlocks, ghosts, goblins, and ghouls'. and the results. are likely to take the town by storm". Rackham's previous illustrated edition of The Ingoldsby Legends, published in 1898, had no deluxe signed issue. For this edition, it was revised and largely redrawn, so that "greater prominence could be given to the illustrations by better and larger reproductions, including a greater number of illustrations in colour" (Prefatory Note). Latimore & Haskell, pp. 30-31; Riall, p. 83. The Athenaeum, 2 November 1907. Large quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered with pictorial decoration in gilt, dark green pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, renewed yellow silk ties. Colour frontispiece and 23 colour plates mounted on green paper with captioned tissue guards, 12 tinted plates, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Head and foot of spine slightly bumped, spine slightly toned, some foxing and browning, one plate slightly creased: a very good copy.