William COMBE, Thomas ROWLANDSON
The Tour of Doctor Syntax. In Search of the Picturesque. The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax. In Search of Consolation. The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax. In Search of a Wife. The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis.
R. Ackermann • J. Johnson|London 1820 - 1821|14.50 x 23.30 cm|4 volumes reliés
A uniformly bound set of four volumes, comprising the three authentic Tours of Doctor Syntax by William Combe and Thomas Rowlandson, together with the celebrated apocryphal volume devoted to London.
The first volume, The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, is the fifth edition, published in London by R. Ackermann on 16 August 1813, with new plates. The next two volumes are the first editions of The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of Consolation, London, R. Ackermann, 1820, and The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of a Wife, London, R. Ackermann, 1821, whose preface is signed and dated 1 May. The fourth, The...
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