The Ingoldsby legends, or, Mirth and marvels
Subtitle: Second series
By: by Thomas Ingoldsby, Esquire
Publisher: Richard Bentley
Published: 1842
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Other titles: Ingoldsby legends; Mirth and marvels
Notes: In verse and prose.

Publisher's advertisements: 4 p. at end.

Page [x] blank (later issues: errata).

Engraved t.-p. signed "G Cook sculpt.", title within ornamental border; 4 plates are by George Cruikshank and 3 by John Leech, all without imprint except the last, "Legend of St. Medard", which has Richard Bentley's imprint dated 1843, in preparation for its appearance also in Bentley's Miscellany for Jan. 1843.

First edition, 1500 copies on ordinary paper; there was also a private edition of 12 copies on heavy paper.

Copies with t.-p. vary in the colors of the lettering on t.-p.; the contents leaf occurs with or without erratum on verso; the t.-p. & plates are on ordinary or thick paper. For a description of this edition see Michael Sadleir's XIX century fiction: a bibliographical record, I, p. 29.

Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, 50.