Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 522

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ROWLANDSON, THOMAS.) [Combe Imitation, William]. The Tour of Doctor Syntax Through London; Or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis. A Poem. Hand-colored aquatint plates including frontispiece, title-vignette and 18 plates by Rowlandson. Tall 8vo, later crimson 1/2-morocco, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, corners rubbed and exposed; marginal foxing to plates, inscription on front free endpaper. Third edition. Tooley 434. London: J. Johnson, 1820
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with-Doctor Syntax in Paris, or a Tour in Search of the Grotesque. Hand-colored aquatint plates including frontispiece, title vignette, and 17 plates by Rowlandson. 8vo, later brown leather, spine gilt in compartments, few scuffs; gutters repaired at preliminaries, scattered foxing and soiling, title vignette trimmed close touching letters. First edition. London: W. Wright, 1820. Abbey Travel 109; Tooley 432.