The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain
John H. Ingram
1897
Gibbings & Company Limited
First Illustrated Edition
8vo
Description:
The first illustrated edition of John H. Ingram’s The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain, published in London by Gibbings & Company Limited in 1897, with seventeen full-page illustrations. Classic Victorian compilation of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish ghost stories located around castles, abbeys, manor houses, vicarages, schools and colleges. Together with the family legends, apparitions, strange noises and omens attached to them.
Condition:
Good Condition. Pictorial cloth with lettering to upper board and spine. All plates present. Binding is firm. Contents are slightly browned. Neat previous owner inscription to front end paper. Boards have some wear particularly to spine with fading and fraying to ends. Upper board has minor wear. Light edge-wear.
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