Combe William Syntax (45 results)

hardcover. Thomas Rowlandson (illustrator). 12mo 244pp. + color plates. light narrative poem in iambic tetrameter couplets, by British writer William Combe (1742 - 1823), best known for his comic poems The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax. #02994. Book G: wear and spotting to boards and spine, scuffs and tears at spine hinges, bookplate on spine chipping, toning and foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding intact.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Thomas Rowlandson (illustrator). Tight binding, solid red boards, black lettering to spine label, upper edge gilt, 24 color plates, title page and tissue protected frontispiece, foxing throughout, otherwise unmarked pages. 1903 edition founded on the R. Ackerman edition of 1817.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Rowlandson, Thomas (illustrator). Limited Edition. Bound in smart grey cloth with white textile backstrip and paper label with clear black titles, this dated 1903 hardcover Limited Edition of 50 copies is VG. V111/251pp with 24 coloured plates by Rowlandson, protected by tissue guards. Clean endpapers, sound/tight binding, all VG.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First edition. Hardcover. 19 hand colored pl., hand colored title page. Bound in later crushed red Moroccan leather by W. Root & Son. Gilt spine, bordering, and inlay to inside boards. 5 raised bands. Multi-colored wash endpapers. TEG. Wear to extremities. Chipping and loss to spine. Darkening to edges of boards and spine. Boards detached. Small margin stain to prelims and title page and last plate and page. Internally very good. Tooley 434. Lowndes III, p.2564; Brunet V, p.615; Abbey Life 265.

An attractive set of all three tours [First issued in 1809/1820/1821] this is the ninth edition " By popular demand".A tale told in verse of a fictional schoolmaster and clergyman who attempts to make his fortune by travelling and then writing & illustrating a book about his experiences of quaint and unusual places." An obvious satire on William Gilpins fashionable concept of the "Picturesque" The collaboration between author,artist & original publisher Rudolph Ackermann was a popular success and led to several reprints. Large 8vo.[10¼"x7"] in matching pictorial gilt with original yellow coated endpapers Vol 1.(viii)272pps Vol 2.(viii)277pps.Vol 3.(vi) 279pps. Each volume has eighty hand coloured plates from etchings by Thomas Rowlandson.

Fourth edition. Published in 1828, 1828 & 1823, all stated as fourth editions, despite the last "Tour" published in 1823. The pious, henpecked clergyman was created by William Combe to accompany the wonderful colored comic illustrations by the caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson. His adventures are told in eight-syllabled verse in "The Three Tours of Dr. Syntax" (1812, 1820 and 1821). These were parodies of the popular books of picturesque travels of the day, particularly those of William Gilpin (1724-1804). Sml. 8vo, each volume approximately 280pp, each with frontispiece and plates (29 in Vol I; 23 each in Vols II & III) a total of 75 magnificent colored aquatint engravings. Bound in early half black calf and marbled boards, gilt title on spines. Slt. rubbed at extremes, a very nice copy, the plates very crisp; 2 in 1st volume with short tear at foredge. Tooley Color Plate Books 430, who adds "fresh plates were re-engraved for this edition, one-third the size of the originals." ; Abbey, Life 265.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. * The Rare 1821 Reissue. * Near-contemporary tan calf over marbled paper sides, spine elegantly gilt, all edges of text block gilt. Large 4to, pp.vi + 175, title-page faintly dusty and just slightly creased at inner margin, binding a little rubbed or scuffed at extremities, else an excellent mellow copy. ** With handsome 19th century armorial bookplate of James Waller Sidney with motto Quo Fata Vocant. *** The Rare 1821 Reissue : the title calls for 6 plates, but in this copy only the hand-coloured aquatint of the Storming Of St Sebastians is present : drawn & etched by W. Heath : and aquatinted by J. C. Stadler. *** The Wars Of Wellington was originally issued in 1819 with 30 plates : this 1821 Reissue was provided with a new title-page calling for only 6 plates. *** The work is an imitation of William Combe's famous series of Dr Syntax narrative poetical works : here the very long narrative poem is supported by extensive factual prose footnotes. See Tooley 154 describing this as A Syntax Imitation; and see Abbey : Life In England 358. *** A rare book : no copy listed in The Sandler Collection. See COPAC listing 2 copies only of the 1819 Edition [in the British Library and at Birmingham] : and no copies at all of this 1821 Reissue. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second. Second edition. London: C. Whittingham for W.T. Gilling, 1821. Quarto (12" x 9 7/16", 305mm x 240mm). [Full collation available.] With 6 hand-colored aquatint-engraved plates by J.C. Stadler and W. Heath. Bound in later (early XXc?) half plum morocco over marbled boards, with gilt rolls at the edges. On the spine, two raised bands. Title gilt along the second panel, with by two gilt helmets in the first and third panels. All edges of the text-block gilt. Rubbed, with some scuffs and skinning. The marbled paper (later?) lifting in places. End-papers renewed. The plates tanned with some pigment bleed and offsetting. Otherwise quite clean. With "Thomas Newcome's" (i.e., William Makepeace Thackeray's) Arthur's first wound (a funeral poem for the Duke of Wellington published in The Times 11 February 1858) laid in. William Combe (1742-1823) with Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) created the character of Dr. Syntax from 1809, mocking William Gilpin, creator of the category of the Picturesque. Dr. Syntax became a literary personage of the late Regency Era, a way to satirize but also to celebrate the quintessential Englishman. While Tooley and others call the present work an imitation of Syntax (perhaps on the basis of its publication by Gilling rather than Ackerman, and Rowlandson's absence), there is no superior candidate for its authorship. The subject, certainly, fits well: the considerable martial achievements of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, celebrating for routing Napoleon at Waterloo. Wellington would go on to be Prime Minister, Leader of the House of Lords and Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, but in 1821 (the first edition 1819, with thirty plates) he was simply a military hero. In the pleasantly overblown style of Byron, the fifteen cantos of the poem are underpinned by extensive footnotes (in prose!) providing context and sources. This second edition, with six plates per the title, Tooley describes as "reissued," suggesting that the plates (published by Tegg in 1818) and perhaps even the text-sheets were drawn from remnants of the first. Abbey, Life 358 (with 6 different plates); Tooley, English books with coloured plates 154.

Second edition, with letter by the Duke of Wellington tipped in; 4to (30 x 25 cm); 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates, armorial bookplate to front pastedown, clean and tight internally; later full red morocco by Bayntuns preserved in cloth slip-case, boards gilt, spine lettered in gilt in six compartments, boards edges gilt rolled, all edges gilt, turn-ins panelled in gilt, a touch of rubbing to spine otherwise a fine copy; 175 pp. A finely bound copy of this poem, which includes a signed letter by the Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) to MP John Capel (1767-1846), discussing business in London, with the franked envelope. William Combe (1742-1823) was a notorious hack, and often ridiculed those in high power such as Lord Lyttelton. The 6 plates are different to that called for in the Abbey copy, but all still taken from the first edition. Abbey (Life), 358; Tooley 153.

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Half-Leather. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Third Edition. Iv, 319 pages + list of illustrations + color frontis + 18 hand colored plates. Half-leather and marbled boards. Ex-library. Library binding. "Doctor Syntax" and "Kaiapoi Institute" in gilt on spine. 1.5" splits to ends of joints. Hinges cracked internally. Wear to edges and corners of boards. 2 library stamps on title page. ; 8vo.

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