May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 106

Price Realized: $ 358
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE and LEECH, JOHN.) Barham, Richard. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels. 3 volumes. Half-titles. Title-pages in vols. 1 and 3 printed in brown and black. 2-page advertisement at end of volume 1. Illustrated by Cruikshank and Leech, including two portraits of the author. 8vo, contemporary full pebble-grain burgundy morocco by Tout, spines gilt-titled in compartments, top edges and turn-ins gilt; internally clean. London: Richard Bentley, 1840-42-47

Additional Details

handsomely bound first edition, first issue of each volume with the following issue points: Vol. 1 with page 236 blank (but lacking inserted slip); Page 71, line 23 reading "Sir Ralph de Shurland"; no errata on verso of contents leaf in Vol. 2; Vol. 3 with "topot" on page 350. Cohn 50.