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Tour of Doctor Syntax - Three Vols, 1st & 3rd Eds.
Tour of Doctor Syntax - Three Vols, 1st & 3rd Eds.
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Author: [Combe, William]
Title: The first, second, and third Tours of Doctor Syntax
Place Published: London
Publisher:R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts
Date Published: 1812-1821
Description: 3 volumes. v, 275; [4], 277; [6], 279 pp. Two pictorial title pages (vols. 1 & 3), 78 plates, and one tailpiece; all colored aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson. (8vo) 22.8x14 cm (9x5½”), volumes 1-2 in brown calf, vol. 3 in green calf. Volumes 1-2 First Editions, volume 3 third edition.First issue of Vol. 1 text with ”Chapter I” instead of ”Canto I”, plate 4 in second state with girl‘s arm raised and bent; Vol. II, plate 15 in first state (rare) with caption reading ”Skimmerton” instead of ”Skimmington”. Comic masterpiece and one of Rowlandson‘s greatest successes as an illustrator. Combe‘s doggerel verses were written to accompany Rowlandson‘s plates depicting the adventures of a roving school-master, produced for a periodical published by Ackermann. The two collaborators, who worked separately, began by satirizing the romantic zest for picturesque landscape championed by William Gilpin; but the wildly popular work and its sequels soon became a jovial ramble through all levels of English life. Abbey, Life, 266 & 267. Tooley 427, 428 & 427.
Condition
Light binding wear, bookplates and ownership marks; light browning and foxing, plates offsetting, many plates bound or trimmed closely affecting text but not image; very good.
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