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The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series

By Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845)

The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry
supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-
name of Richard Harris Barham.

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2 The legends were first printed in 1837 as a regular series in Bentley's Miscellany
and later in New Monthly Magazine. The legends were illustrated by John Leech
and George Cruikshank, and later, Arthur Rackham. They proved immensely
popular and were compiled into books published in 1840, 1842 and 1847 by
Richard Bentley. They remained popular through the Victorian era but have since
cu fallen out of fame. An omnibus edition appeared in 1879: The Ingoldsby Legends;
u or Mirth and Marvels. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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§0 Cover image by Arthur Rackham (1907). Copyright expired in US, Canada, EU, and all countries with author's life

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