(BARHAM, RICHARD HARRIS).
The Inglodsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels
by Thomas Ingoldsby. Annotaded edition. Edited, with Notes Introductory and Illustrative by R. H. Dalton Barham. 2 vols. London, Richad Bentley and Son 1876. XIX+428; XI+464 p. + engr. titles, engr. frontisp., 2 facsimiles and 25 engr. plates by George Cruikshank, John Leech and others. Contemp. full calf. Spine somewhat worn, joints repaired. Split in upper joint of vol. 1. But internal an overall nice clean set.
¶ The frontispiece in volume 1 are by George Cruikshand and it depict all the author's characters. It was first published in the 1870 edition of this work and it was designed after the artist and the publisher Richard Bentley had shaken hanss after many years estrangement. This edition not in Cohn's 'Geoge Cruikshans. A Catalogue Raisonné'. Richard Harris Barham's (1788-1845) 'Ingoldsby Legends' was first published in magazines and in 1840 reissued in bookform, by their humour, felicity of verse, narrative power and variety of subject, they became immensely popular, though charges of irreverence and the like have been made against them. The author was particularly successfull in the grotesque or frankly comic treatment of medieval legend.
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