[WILLIAM COMBE]
[WILLIAM COMBE]

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[WILLIAM COMBE]

The Tour of Dr Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque [vol.II:] in Search of Consolation; [vol. III:] in Search of a Wife]. London: R. Ackermann, 1812-1820-[1821]. 3 volumes, 8vo, coloured aquatint frontispiece in each volume, vols I & II with additional aquatint title-page, and 75 coloured plates by Thomas Rowlandson, coloured vignette at end of vol. III. (Vol. I browned, spotted and some offsetting, only very light offsetting from plates in remaining vols., a few occasional light spots.) Red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spines lettered in gilt, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE with heading 'Chapter I' in vol. I and first state of plate 15 in vol. II. Tooley 427-429; cf. Abbey Life 266, 267 (in parts).

With Doctor Syntax in Paris or a Tour in Search of the Grotesque (London, 1820), original boards, uncut. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM; and The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the little Foundling of the late Doctor Syntax (London, 1822). FIRST EDITION, SCHWERDT COPY. (5)