- Museum number
- 1992,0406.19
- Description
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Barham, Richard Harris. The Ingoldsby Legends or mirth and marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby, Esquire. With sixty illustrations by George Cruikshank, John Leech and John Tenniel. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. London, 1864. London: R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Printers. xii, 428p. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. He has noted the following original plates are in the Dalziel Archive for 1863, nos. 1033-1073. The frontispiece is by John Leech, accompanying the poem entitled: “The Ghost”. The illustration on page 1 is by George Cruikshank. The illustration on page 13 is by John Tenniel. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: The design is by John Leighton. Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Plain dark green endpapers. Red diagonal beaded line cloth. On the lower pastedown are two tickets. The binder’s ticket is: "/ Bound by/ Burn/ 37 & 38/ Kirby St./” [Ball no. 20A.] Both covers are blocked identically in gold and in blind. At the four corners, twin intertwined dragons are blocked in gold. The outer border in gold is of a repeating pattern of acorns at the end of leaves, interspaced with a triple leaf motif, which is enclosed in arches. The inner border features a medallion on each corner, with the head and shoulders of a fanciful character blocked within each. There is also a medallion and fanciful character within blocked on the centre of each side. Two shields with pseudo-devices within are blocked in gold and in relief on each side. Fillets and "cord-shaped" fillets and emblems are blocked in gold between the medallions and the shields on the inner border. The inner corners have decoration blocked in blind. The central mandorla has several borders, blocked in gold. Within it at the head, a lion is blocked, holding a shield, saltire ermine. The tail of the lion loops on either side of the shield to enclose the initials "T" and "I". The title: "/ The/ Ingoldsby/ Legends/" is blocked in relief within a shield-shaped gold lettering-piece.The initials, "JL", are blocked in relief as separate letters at the base of the title. The spine is blocked in gold and in blind. A single gold fillet is blocked on the perimeter, with three fillets blocked in blind inside this. Pairs of oak leaves and acorns are blocked in gold at the head. The inner panel runs from tail to head, formed by two gold fillets, which are semi-circular at the head. At the head of the inner panel, a rat and a frog are on either side of a medallion with a figure resembling Mephistopheles within - all in gold. The title: "/ The/ Ingoldsby/ Legends/ Illustrated/" is blocked in gold. The decoration below this shows a magpie with a ring in its mouth, astride a hat. The hat is above a sword, a spear and a bishops' staff, all crossing behind a shield. A cross and rosary, and a cat of nine tails are blocked to the left and to the right beneath the shield. The shield shows an owl displayed, wings inverted, sable. Above the owl, a bat soaring, or. The lower half of the sword impales a head, and a half moon. Signed "JL", in gold as separate letters, beneath the half moon. The words: "/ Richard Bentley/" are blocked in relief within a rectangular gold lettering-piece, with two gold fillets blocked on its borders. Beneath this, a rectangle is formed by a single fillet blocked in blind. Acorn, leaves and scallop decoration is blocked in gold at the tail. The British Library has six other copies of this work: 1. BL 11660f1 of 1864, bound by Burn, in maroon pebble-grain cloth; 2. 1347k6 of 1864, original covers used as doublures, green pebble-grain cloth; 3. C129d3of 1864 bound in brown dot and line horizontal-grain cloth; 4. 11651f2 of 1865, original covers used as doublures, purple sand-grain cloth; 5. 11651f3 of 1866, original covers used as doublures, green sand-grain cloth; 6. C70d10 of 1874, purple sand grain cloth .
- Dimensions
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Height: 242 millimetres
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Thickness: 46 millimetres
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Width: 185 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For descriptive details of the binder’s ticket, see: Ball, Douglas. ‘Victorian publishers’ bindings’. (London, Library Association, 1985), Appendix E, ‘Nineteenth Century Edition binders’ Signatures’ pp. 168-192.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Ingoldsby Legends or mirth and marvels.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.19
