Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE and LEECH, JOHN.) Barham, Richard. The Ingoldsby Legends. 3 volumes. Illustrated by Cruikshank and Leech, including two portraits of the author. 8vo, contemporary full burgundy morocco by Zaehnsdorf, covers panelled in gilt (slightly bowed), raised bands, spine gilt in compartments, gilt turn-ins, top edges gilt; spines evenly faded, occasional light foxing to plate margins. Charles Plumptre Johnson and Norman J. Sondheim bookplates. London: Richard Bentley, 1840-42-47
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first edition, first issue of each volume with the following issue points: Vol. 1 with page 236 blank and signed inscription laid-in that reads "By a blunder of which I have no one to thank / But myself, here's a page that's been somehow left blank: / Aha! Master Critic, I have you - You'll look / In vain for a fault in one page of my book! / Thos. Ingoldsby"; 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.