Author: Thomas Ingoldsby [Richard Harris Barham]
Title: Ye Jackdaw of Rheims
Description: London, Eyre & Spottiswood , [1883]. Hardback. An illustrated edition of this popular ballad by Richard Harris Barham. An ancient ballad by Richard Harris Barham published under pseudonym of Thomas Ingoldsby. Dated from Copac 1883. Containing the best-known poem in Ingoldsby's successful collection of myths, legends, and ghost stories 'The Ingoldsby's Legends&apos. The story follows a jackdaw who steals a cardinal's ring and is made a saint.This edition was illustrated in text by Ernest Maurice Jessop. Complete with twenty leaves loosely inserted as issued. Text and illustrations in red and black ink. In the original publisher's illustrated boards, text leaves loosely inserted as called for, new endpapers. Externally generally sound with some rubbing and shelf wear, light soiling. and minor markings to the rear board. Internally, the leaves are loosely inserted as issued. Printed to the recto as called for in red and black ink. Light minor spotting scattered to the occasional leaf. Illustrated in text. Good . Ill.: Ernest Maurice Jessop. Good .

Keywords: richard harris barham poetry jackaw of rheims ernest maurice jessop poetry Ernest Maurice Jessop


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