Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
[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 cover detached, imprint cut from title, list of plates not present, glue and tape stains on front blanks; custom morocco-edged slipcase. London: R. Ackerman, 1812

Additional Details

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.