The Ingoldby Legends or Mirth and Marvels. With Sixty Illustrations by George Cruikshank, John Leech, and John Tenniel

8vo.(6.5" x 9.125") 428 pp. 1864. London: Richard Bentley. Full brown textured cloth with all over gilt decoration of dragons, coats of arms, and portraits framing a lion crest and gilt title to both beveled boards. Spine similarly decorated with gilt title, swords and spear (see pic). Light brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine ruffled and rubbed. Spine lightly sun-lightened. The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels is a delightful and eccentric collection of ghost stories, legends, parodies, and humorous verse, written by Richard Harris Barham under the pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby. First published serially in the 1830s and 1840s in Bentley’s Miscellany and later compiled into volumes, the work became one of the great comic classics of Victorian literature