Author: Ingoldsby, Thomas.

Publisher: London: J.M. Dent & Co. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.

Format: Hardcover royal octavo, green cloth boards with gilt text and illustrations, gilt top edge, decorated endpapers, rough cut edges, xix + 549, 24 colour tipped-in plates and 12 tinted plates, 25.8 x 19.3cm.

First edition thus. Numerous line illustrations throughout text.

Thomas Ingoldsby is the pen-name of Richard Harris Barham (1788–1845), English cleric of the Church of England, novelist and humorous poet.  The Ingoldsby Legends is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poems.

Scuffing, soiling and stains to covers, spine a little frayed, light scattered foxing throughout, Frontispiece missing tissue guard.