Apr 28, 2005 - Sale 2040

Sale 2040 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 460
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
WITH WATERCOLORS INSTEAD OF COLOR PLATES COMBE, WILLIAM. The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque . . . Third Edition. Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and additional title after Thomas Rowlandson (soiled); 31 watercolors after Rowlandson; pen-and-ink wash drawing dated 1865 copied from the woodcut vignette at the end of the book. 8vo, later 19th-century navy morocco, spine faded to green. London, [1821?]

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In this copy the Rowlandson color aquatints have been replaced by skillfully executed watercolor copies attributed by a later 19th-century pencil note on the front flyleaf to an an artist named Edward Bradley.