The Ingoldsby legends, or, Mirth and marvels
Subtitle: Third series
By: by Thomas Ingoldsby, Esquire
Publisher: Richard Bentley
Published: 1846
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Other titles: Ingoldsby legends.; Mirth and marvels.
Notes: In verse and prose.

Edited by the author's son, R.H. Dalton Barham, who provided a preface (p. [iii]-vi) and a "Memoir" of his father (p. [1]-186).

Engraved t.p., signed "Cook sc", title within ornamental border; 2 ports. of the author, one after R.J. Lane & the other after R.H. Dalton Barham; 2 plates by George Cruikshank and 2 by John Leech. The ports. have Bentley's imprint dated 1846 & 1847, the plates by Leech are dated 1847 and those by Cruikshank 1846 & 1843.

First edition, 1500 copies, published Dec. 26, 1846. Copies with t.p. as above vary in the colors of the lettering on t.p. According to Cohn (1924):50) copies of the 1st issue have "topot" printed as one word in line 2 of p. 350.

Sadleir, Michael XIX century fiction, I, 156f.

Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, 50.