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[COMBE, WILLIAM.] The [First] Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. A Poem. 30 colored aquatint plates, including engraved title,

[COMBE, WILLIAM.] The [First] Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. A Poem. 30 colored aquatint plates, including engraved title, designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson. 8vo, crimson levant morocco with green morocco doublures and red watered silk endpapers by Pomey, spine dulled from leather conditioner, few scuffs, joint rubbed; front hinge cracked, imprint cut from title, list of plates not present, glue and tape stains on front blanks. London, R. Ackermann, 1812

  • Notes: first edition. A complete series of 26 lithographed plates by Malapeau and Engelmann, from the first French edition of 1821 bound in next to colored plates. The French title-page is also bound in.

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