The Ingoldsby Legends - Mirth And Marvel - Hardcover - Richards H. Barham 1840 Philadelphia - Porter and Coates

The Ingoldsby Legends - Mirth And Marvel - Hardcover - Richards H. Barham 1840 Philadelphia - Porter and Coates

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1840 Philadelphia First Edition.

The Ingoldsby Legends (full title: The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels) is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham.

The chapters include:

  • "The Spectre of Tappington"
  • "The Nurse's Story: the Hand of Glory"
  • "Patty Morgan the Milkmaid's Story: 'Look at the Clock!'"
  • "Grey Dolphin: a legend of Sheppey"
  • "The Ghost"
  • "The Cynotaph"
  • "The Leech of Folkestone: Mrs Botherby's Story"
  • "The Legend of Hamilton Tighe"
  • "The Witches' Frolic"
  • "A Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris, Doctor in Divinity"
  • "The Jackdaw of Rheims"
  • "A Lay of St Dunstan"
  • "A Lay of St Gengulphus"
  • "The Lay of St Odille"
  • "A Lay of St Nicholas"
  • "The Lady Rohesia"
  • "The Tragedy"
  • "Mr. Barney Maguire's Account of the Coronation"
  • "The 'Monstre' Balloon"
  • "The Execution: A Sporting Anecdote"
  • "Some Account of a New Play"
  • "Mr Peters's Story: the Bagman's Dog"
  • "Introduction to the Second Series"
  • "The Black Mousquetaire: a legend of France"
  • "Sir Rupert the Fearless: a legend of Germany"
  • "The Merchant of Venice: a legend of Italy"
  • "The Auto-Da-Fé: a legend of Spain"
  • "The Ingoldsby Penance!: a legend of Palestine and West Kent"
  • "Netley Abbey: a legend of Hampshire"
  • "Fragment"
  • "Nell Cook: a legend of the Dark Entry – the King's Scholar's story"
  • "Nursery Reminiscences"
  • "Aunt Fanny: a legend of a shirt"
  • "Misadventures at Margate: a legend of Jarvis's Jetty"
  • "The Smuggler's Leap: a legend of Thanet"
  • "Bloudie Jacke of Shrewsberrie: a legend of Shropshire"
  • "The Babes in the Woody; or, the Norfolk Tragedy"
  • "The Dead Drummer: a legend of Salisbury Plain"
  • "A Row in an Omnibus Box: a legend of the Haymarket"
  • "The Lay of St Cuthbert; or the Devil's Dinner-Party: a legend of the North Countree"
  • "The Lay of St Aloys: a legend of Blois"
  • "The Lay of the Old Woman Clothed in Grey: a legend of Dover"
  • "Raising the Devil: a legend of Cornelius Agrippa"
  • "Saint Medard: a legend of Africa"
  • "Preface to the Third Series"
  • "The Lord of Thoulouse: a legend of Languedoc"
  • "The Wedding-Day; or, The Buccaneer's Curse: a family legend"
  • "The Blasphemer's Warning: a lay of St Romwold"
  • "The Brothers Of Birchington: a lay of St Thomas à Becket"
  • "The Knight and the Lady: a domestic legend of the reign of Queen Anne"
  • "The House-Warming!!: a legend of Bleeding-Heart Yard"
  • "The Forlorn One"
  • "Jerry Jarvis's Wig: a legend of the Weald of Kent"
  • "Unsophisticated Wishes"
  • "Miscellaneous Poems"