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Published by Nattali and Bond, London, 1855
Seller: Shadyside Books, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Volume Third only. 1855. Hardcover, original green cloth. 279 pp. With 24 hand-colored plates after Thomas Rowlandson, plus title vignette. Fair copy overall, although the plates themselves are in Fine condition. Heavy wear and fading to the cloth; majority of spine cloth missing; backstrip starting to crack. Bold, bright coloring and no foxing or offsetting to the plates. A fantastic candidate for rebinding.
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, 1903
Red hardback cloth cover. Reprint. 250mm x 150mm (10" x 6"). 266pp. Illustrated plates. Based on the seventh edition published in 1817 by R. Ackerman. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Spine faded and lightly marked with wear to paper title panel. Corners bumped. Scattered foxing.
Published by London: John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, 1871
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 2 p. 1., [iii]-xlviii, 354 p. col. front., 77 col. pl. 20 cm. Notes; "Bibliographical list of the works written by William Combe": p. [xl]-xlviii. Subjects; William Combe (1742-1823). Fiction. 19th century fiction. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.
Published by London: John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, 1871
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 2 p. 1., [iii]-xlviii, 354 p. col. front., 77 col. pl. 20 cm. Notes; "Bibliographical list of the works written by William Combe": p. [xl]-xlviii. Subjects; William Combe (1742-1823). Fiction. 19th century fiction. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.
Published by London : J.C. Hotten, 1868
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Title page loose. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 2 preliminary leaves, [iii]-xlviii, 354 pages color frontispiece, 77 color plates 20 cm. Notes; Bound in green cloth; stamped in gold and blind; gray coated endpapers. Front free endpaper, frontispiece, engraved title-page, detached. Subjects; Combe, William (1742-1823). Verse satire. English poetry 19th century. Genres; Bibliography. English wit and humor. Illustrated. 1 Kg.
Published by London : J.C. Hotten, 1868
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Title page loose. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 2 preliminary leaves, [iii]-xlviii, 354 pages color frontispiece, 77 color plates 20 cm. Notes; Bound in green cloth; stamped in gold and blind; gray coated endpapers. Front free endpaper, frontispiece, engraved title-page, detached. Subjects; Combe, William (1742-1823). Verse satire. English poetry 19th century. Genres; Bibliography. English wit and humor. Illustrated. 1 Kg.
Published by R. Ackermann, 1828
Seller: Allsop Antiquarian Booksellers PBFA, Warwick, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3 vols. Illus. with 78 hand cold. plates. Sm. 8vo. full calf, t.e.g. Front hinge on vol. 1 a little weak, edges of bds. slightly rubbed, else v.g.
Published by 1819-21, London, 1819
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Mixed set, with ninth edition of vol. I and stated third edition of vols II-III. Octavo (26cm). Uniformly bound in mid-century orange cloth, stamped in blind on boards and gilt on spines, top edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers; I: [iv],[iv],276pp; II: [vi],277,[1]pp; III: [iv],279,[1]pp; illustrated with hand-colored aquatints, vol. I with 31 plates including frontispiece and engraved title page, vol. II with 24 plates including frontis. (but without engraved t.p., as issued), vol. III with 26 plates including frontis., t.p., and concluding vignette. Binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds at rear. Bookplates of Robert Arthur Blane in each volume, with 1849 gift inscription to Blane in vol. I. A straight set, largely sound, cloth rubbed and dustsoiled, corners bumped, vol. I chipped at head; internally with some offsetting and fingersoil, a few plates browned or foxed, and one gathering pulled, but most plates bright and fresh: Very Good. Likely an 1840s issue of this popular comic poem (note that all three volumes state "third edition" on title page, but vol. I also states eighth edition on the engraved title page, and includes the advertisement to the ninth edition). Combe's poems about Doctor Syntax combined "lighthearted satire of William Gilpin's theory of the picturesque in art with a central character modelled on Cervantes' Don Quixote and Henry Fielding's Parson Adams" (ODNB). The works gave the illustrator, Thomas Rowlandson, "ample scope for the comic designs of which he was a master," and the aquatints in these books "were his greatest success as an illustrator" (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914 p.27). Cf. RAY 34 for the first editions.
Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.
Published by Printed by J. Diggens / Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, London, 1814
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. London: Printed by J. Diggens / Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1814-1817. First Editions. Three volumes; octavos (26cm.); contemporary calf over paper-covered boards, black gilt spine labels (the earlier two volumes bound with marbled paper-covered boards, the latter volume bound with elements of one of the original fascicle wrappers), all margins remain untrimmed, the set housed in modern cloth slipcase; [4],vii,[5],295,[1]; [6],299,[1]; [2],ii,ii,285,[3]pp.; the first and third volume bound with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and added title page, ninety-six hand-colored plates totaling one hundred (100) hand-colored plates, collated and complete. Boards a bit scuffed, joints discreetly reinforced, half title present in Vol. I only as usual, brief ownership signature to front pastedown of latter two volumes, offsetting from plates, else a Very Good, quite attractive set uncommon in contemporary binding. One of the final projects on which William Combe contributed before his death in 1823, these two works following shortly after the success of "The Tour of Doctor Syntax." The text was written in conjunction with Thomas Rowlandson's rollicking suite of engravings, in which no member of English society was free of ridicule. "The illustrated books underline Rowlandson's extraordinary range. He was as much a master of the lyrical watercolour of rolling countryside as of the incisive caricature. A specialist in urban topography, though more interested in the picturesque than in exactitude, he was portraitist, social commentator, and sporting artist. Above all, he reveled in the comedy of everyday life, emphasizing the ridiculous and the ribald in his inventions, poking fun but avoiding emotion and satire" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). GROLIER ROWLANDSON 32 & 38; TOOLEY 410 & 411.