Post by Graveyardbride on Jul 15, 2014 23:58:01 GMT -5
The Witches' Frolic: 18th-19th century illustrated book on how witches like to party
Scans of a wonderful 19th century book (with 18th-century origins) about witches are making the internet rounds anew. The link below takes you to 20 pages from The Witches Frolic by Thomas Ingoldsby, with illustrations by Ernest M. Jessop.
UK "supernatural and weird" book specialists The Side Real Press scanned and posted a total of 20 scans in 2012 on its blog, and we're cross-posting them here for posterity. Their description follows:
"The Ingoldsby Legends where written by the Clergyman Thomas Barham (1788-1845) under the pseudonym “Thomas Ingoldsby” and originally published piecemeal in Bentleys Miscellany before being collected in book form in the early 1840s.
"The tales were written as poems and are both humorous and macabre. Though the book is largely out of fashion nowadays, it was immensely popular in its time and many handsome editions were printed, often with illustrations by the great artists of the day such as Cruikshank, Tenniel and Rackham."
The images here are from a large format edition, one of a series of such, illustrated by Ernset Jessop (1792–1870).
boingboing.net/2014/07/15/the-witches-frolic.html
Source: Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing, July 15, 2014.
Scans of a wonderful 19th century book (with 18th-century origins) about witches are making the internet rounds anew. The link below takes you to 20 pages from The Witches Frolic by Thomas Ingoldsby, with illustrations by Ernest M. Jessop.
UK "supernatural and weird" book specialists The Side Real Press scanned and posted a total of 20 scans in 2012 on its blog, and we're cross-posting them here for posterity. Their description follows:
"The Ingoldsby Legends where written by the Clergyman Thomas Barham (1788-1845) under the pseudonym “Thomas Ingoldsby” and originally published piecemeal in Bentleys Miscellany before being collected in book form in the early 1840s.
"The tales were written as poems and are both humorous and macabre. Though the book is largely out of fashion nowadays, it was immensely popular in its time and many handsome editions were printed, often with illustrations by the great artists of the day such as Cruikshank, Tenniel and Rackham."
The images here are from a large format edition, one of a series of such, illustrated by Ernset Jessop (1792–1870).
boingboing.net/2014/07/15/the-witches-frolic.html
Source: Xeni Jardin, BoingBoing, July 15, 2014.
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