[ Five Volumes in the Doctor Syntax Tours ]

[ Combe, William ]

Published by R. Ackermann's Repository Of Art ; London

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Combe wrote three of the Dr. Syntax tours to serve as vehicles for Thomas Rowlandson's illustrations and each of the volumes of eight-syllable verse stands as a work in itself._____ . _____ ____1. The Tour Of Doctor Syntax, In Search Of The Picturesque; R. Ackermann's Repository Of Art; London; 276p pp.; ; VG; nc/1819/Ninth Edition_____This copy of Volume I is of the ninth edition, with new plates, bound in contemporary full leather._____ . _____ With 30 full page hand-colored plates (plus a title page illustration) by Rowlandson. _____ ____2. The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation; R. Ackermann; London; 1820 / Third Edition; 277 pages __Very Good Hardback in Full Leather___Augmented with 24 full page hand-colored plates of comic illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson. ____ ____3. The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife; R. Ackermann; London; 1821;___279p pages Very Good Hardback in Full Leather.__ This being the first edition of the final title in the original Syntax tours.__ With 24 hand-colored plates (and a title page illustration) after drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, the last of which depicts the good doctor's funeral. _____ ____4. Doctor Syntax in Paris or a Tour in Search of the Grotesque; W. Wright; London; 1820 / First Edition; 318 pages __ Very Good Hardback in Full Leather__The first printing of the fourth volume. __With 17 full page hand-colored illustrations in the style of Rowlandson, but credited to "Williams, del et fe". ____ ____5. The Tour of Doctor Syntax Through London Or, the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis; J. Johnston; London; 1820 / First Edition; 319 pages__ Hardback in Antique Full Leather Volume V is a presumptive first printing,___IN A MISMATCHED BINDING WITH A SMALL STAIN TO THE SPINE HEEL.__BOTH COVERS ON VOLUME FIVE ARE FULLY FREE. ___HEAVY__SET__EXTRA__POSTAGE__CHARGES__WILL__APPLY___.

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• Title: [ Five Volumes in the Doctor Syntax Tours ]
• Publisher: R. Ackermann's Repository Of Art ; London
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
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