Add this copy of The Tour of Doctor Syntax Through London; Or, the to cart. $280.00, fair condition, Sold by Sequitur Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boonsboro, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1820 by J. Johnson.
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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.
Add this copy of The Tour of Doctor Syntax Through London, Or the to cart. $500.00, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1820 by Johnston.
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Rowlandson & Cruikshank. Near fine. 20 color plates including the frontispiece and title-page vignette. 319 pages. 8vo, original boards (rubbed); housed in a burgundy cloth clam shall box. London: J. Johnston, 1820. Third Edition. A near fine copy. A satire of William S. Combe's "The Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque." Both Rowlandson and I.R. Cruikshank are credited with the designs for the plates, the balance of opinion favouring Cruikshank but according to the advertisement...more than one artist was employed, or at least a different engraver to the artist." Tooley 434. Lowndes III, p.2564; Brunet V, p.615.
