1882 Rare Carmine Edition - Ingoldsby Legends Illustrated by Cruikshank, Leech and Barham.

(Description)

Author: Thomas Ingoldsby (pseudonym of Richard Harris Barham).
Title: The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels. The Carmine Edition. With twenty illustrations on steel by Cruikshank, Leech, and Barham.
Publisher: London, Richard Bentley & Son, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1882. The Carmine Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 6 ".
Pages: 546 pages + publisher's catalog.
Binding: Attractive and near fine binding, finely bound in full red morocco leather, titles in gilt on spine, raised bands (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges are gilt.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining - mainly on the outer margins of illustrations - as shown, ex-libris of a previous owner on the first endpaper - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the wonderful engraved titles; portraits; plates by Cruikshank, Leech, and Barham; text illustrations, and decorations.

The book: Beautiful and attractive copy of the Carmine Edition of The Ingoldsby Legends by Richard Bentley & Son with wonderful Illustrations by Cruikshank, Leech, and Barham!

The author: Richard Harris Barham (6 December 1788 – 17 June 1845) was an English cleric of the Church of England, a novelist, and a humorous poet. He was known generally by his pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby and as the author of The Ingoldsby Legends.