The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard Harris Barham) 1869 Engoldsby

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London: Richard Bentley 1869, new edition. (Hardcover) Very good. 468pp. Green leather decoratively stamped in gilt on both covers, the spine, and inner dentelles. All edges gilt, coated yellow endpapers, ribbon page marker, illustrated title page, illustrations, 2 plates.

Pseudonym of Richard Harris Barham. (Essays, Legends).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ingoldsby_Legends

The Ingoldsby Legends (full title: The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels) is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poems written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham.

Background

The legends were first printed during 1837 as a regular series in the magazine Bentley's Miscellany and later in The New Monthly Magazine.[1] They proved immensely popular and were compiled into books published by Richard Bentley in 1840, 1842 and 1847. They remained popular during the 19th century, when they ran through many editions. They were illustrated by artists including George Cruikshank, John Leech and John Tenniel;[2] and Arthur Rackham (1898 edition).

As a priest of the Chapel Royal, with a private income,[3] Barham was not troubled with strenuous duties, and he had ample time to read, and to compose his stories and poems. Although the "legends" are based on folklore or other pre-existing sources, chiefly Kentish,[4] such as the "hand of glory", they are mostly humorous parodies or pastiches.