The Ingoldsby Legends; Or Mirth And Marvels Rackham, Arthur [Illustrator] & Illustrated,Literature & Classics

Octavo, 549pp, 24 coloured plates tipped onto grey card mounts with titled guards, 12 illustrations with tint, and 66 in-text line drawings, illustrated cloth covers. Head and tail od spine tender; lower corners lightly bumped; foxing to half title, last leaf and edges of the block. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is one of the great artists associated with the Golden Age of Illustration. Thomas Ingoldsby was the pen name of Richard Harris Barhum (1788 - 1845) who was an English cleric of the Church of England and a novelist and humourous poet. A collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poems; deliberate humourous parodies of medieval folklore and poetry.