Physical description

Hard cover book. The Ingoldsby Legends
Author: Thomas Ingoldsby Pen Name Of (Richard Harris Barham)
Editor: Richard Harris Dalton Barham
Publisher: Richard Bentley & Son
Date: 1881 (New Edition)
Further Information: Black Cloth hardcover with lettering to spine in gilt. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on spine with typed text PAT 828 ING
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service

Summary

The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poems, mostly parodies or deliberately comic retellings. They were supposedly written by ‘Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor’, a pen-name of Richard Harris Barham. He began contributing them to the newly founded Bentley’s Miscellany in 1837, as tales that were mostly in verse and sometimes in prose. Bentley compiled them into books in 1840, 1842 and 1847. Typical tales mix Gothic spookery, medieval folklore and slapstick. Examples are ‘The Spectre of Tappington’ and ‘The Dead Drummer of Salisbury Plain’.