After Combe William (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Green cloth bound, hardback book with gilt decoration on front board, and gilt titles on spine. This wonderful old book, is in good condition, and as its a used book, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. 354 pages, all intact and a good binding, all pages, text and beautiful illustrations are in good, clean, readable order. Corners of boards slightly worn and bumped. Previous owners own label, with name pf owner and black & white drawing printed. Pencil signature on title page. "The Original Edition, Complete and Unabridged, With the Life and Adventures of the Author, Now First Written, By John Camden Hotten". No specific published date, assuming its around 1868 to 1869 as the back of the book, is "a list of very important new books, special list for 1869". 80 x stunning illustrations by Rowlandson. A fabulous book that has stood the test of time and deserves to be preserved for future literary generations.

Hardcover. Third Edition. Quarto, iv, [2], 319 pages. With 20 hand-colored engraved plates, including frontispiece and title page. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in full mottled calf with gilt ornamentation to boards, board edges, turn ins, and spine; green leather labels bearing gilt titling to spine. Light plus bumping and rubbing to corners of boards and light plus rubbing to joints; splits starting at joints. Spine labels sunned almost to brown. All text block edges gilt and still bright. Text block lightly age toned. Pencil annotations to first and second front free endpapers. Moderate offsetting to blank sheets inserted opposite plates. EH Consignment. Shelved Room G. 1381642. Special Collections.

12mo, 14.5x9.5cm. The three-volume 'miniature' edition, first edition thus. PICTURESQUE (Vol. I): pp(2)/(2)276(2)(2)(18)/(2) including blank preliminary leaf, preface, directions to binder, 18pp publisher's list, and blank final leaf; with frontispiece, engraved title-page with colour vignette, 29 plates in text, and vignette tailpiece at page 276. CONSOLATION (Vol. II): pp(4)/(4)277(1)(2)/(4) including two blank preliminary leaves, letterpress title, introduction, directions to binder, and two blank final leaves; with frontispiece, and 23 plates in text. WIFE (Vol. III): pp(4)/(2)(2)279(1)/(2) including two blank preliminary leaves, preface, directions to binder, and blank final leaf; with frontispiece, engraved title-page with colour vignette, 23 plates in text, and tinted vignette tailpiece at page 279. Recent uniform half blond calf, marbled paper-covered boards, plain white endpapers. Smooth spines with modest gilt decorations, and gilt title and volume number on separate maroon leather labels. Uniform marbled edges of text-blocks of Vols. II & III contrasting with bright recently-cut edges of Vol. I. Edges of Vols. II & III toned, with marbling faint and top edges darkened and a little marked. Contents of all three volumes occasionally lightly toned, here & there lightly spotted or with isolated spots, with a few minor dust- & handling-marks, and variable offsetting from plates; Vols. II & III also with a number of creased and/or furled corner tips. Vol. I with owner's name of some age at upper edge of engraved title, Vols. II & III with more recent owner's surname on rectos of first preliminary leaves. Bindings in fine condition, holding firmly and of pleasing appearance; contents complete, and generally clean and tight. VERY GOOD set.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. Later Edition. (iii)-xlviii, (1), 354, 19 (publisher's catalogue, pp. No Date, circa 1869, date of publisher's catalogue at end. List of the Plates lists 79 colored plates while title page states there are 80. The original ed., complete and unabridged, with the life and adventures of the author, now first written, by John Camden Hotten. Very Good, bound in contemporary half polished calf over, red morocco label with gilt back, top edge gilt, marbled end papers, rubs to calf at spine and edges, prior owner name in ink and stamp at title page. interior clean and bright. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. First edition. A knock off of the hugely popular Dr. Syntax trilogy, with additional inspiration presumably coming from Boswell's account of his tour of Scotland in the company of Samuel Johnson. Abbey, Life 277. Tooley 433. Prideaux p. 334. 251 pp. with 20 leaves of hand-colored aquatints by William Read and C. Williams (after Thomas Rowlandson). Bound in half brown calfskin leather and marble, gilt lettering and tooling, top edge stained blue, marbled design on others. Provenance: bookplate with coat of arms of G. J. Crosbie Dawson, Chief Engineer to the North Staffordshire Railway Company. Rubbing to the edges. 6" - 9½". Book.

First Edition. First edition parody/imitation of the Combe and Rowlandson Dr. Syntax series, with this work poking fun at Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Illustrated with 20 hand-colored aquatint plates drawn and engraved by C. Williams and W. Read. "[T]he day of the 'Comic Highlander' was at hand. In 1821, The Tour of Doctor Prosody in Search of the Antique and Picturesque was published in London . . ." Dunbar, The Costume of Scotland (1984, pg. 78). 8vo. [6], 251pp., without half title. Tooley 433 (noted as a "Syntax Imitation"). Abbey, Life 277. Prideaux, pg. 334. Hardie, pg. 317 ("the plates not by Rowlandson"). About very good in full polished calf, ruled in gilt, raised bands, morocco spine label, spine tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, joints and spine previously repaired with some wear, corners bumped, occasional soiling, prior owner bookplate to front pastedown.

First Edition. The First Dr. Syntax Imitation In a Superb Inlaid Binding by Rivière & Son [COMBE, William, after]. [RIVIÈRE & Son, Binders]. The Adventures of Doctor Comicus or The Frolicks of Fortune. A Comic Satirical Poem for the Squeamish & The Queer. In Twelve Cantos, by a Modern Syntax. London: Printed for B. Blake, n.d. [1815]. First edition. Octavo (8 13/16 x 5 1/4 in; 224 x 132 mm). [2], 269, [1] pp. Fifteen hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece and extra engraved title. Bound c. 1925 by Rivière & Son (stamp-signed) in full antelope brown crushed morocco with gilt fillets surrounding an elaborately gilt frame enclosing a reproduced portrait of Dr. Comicus from the extra titlepage comprised of multi-colored calf onlays. Spine compartments reiterate gilt decoration to boards. Broad turn-ins with gilt rules and corner-pieces. Moire silk endpapers. Expertly and almost invisibly rebacked with the original spine laid down. A very attractive example. A clever and now uncommon parodic offshoot of the hugely successful Doctor Syntax series, consciously modeled on William Combe's verse and Rowlandson's visual idiom. Although neither Rowlandson nor Combe were directly involved, the book trades knowingly on their fame, adopting the familiar cantos, mock-heroic tone, and episodic structure that had made Doctor Syntax a publishing sensation in the previous decade. Doctor Comicus follows its hapless protagonist through a sequence of misadventures and social embarrassments, using broad humor, caricature, and topical satire to skewer manners, pretensions, and eccentricities of Regency life. The hand-colored plates - spirited, energetic, and intentionally Rowlandsonian - form an essential part of the joke, reinforcing the book's role as both homage and spoof. "This is the first of many imitations of Dr. Syntax" (Tooley). The success of Dr. Syntax "produced a host of parodies and spurious imitations. Among them the best perhaps is the Tour of Dr. Syntax through London.Others were Dr. Comicus, or the Frolics of Fortune, in 1815, with fifteen plates [reprinted in 1820 with only twelve plates].It looks as if Com-icus were a pun on Combe's name, to add insult to injury" (Hardie). Abbey, Life 254. Tooley 431. Prideaux, p. 334. Hardie, p. 317.

London, J. Johnston, no date (1820), 3rd ed. (part 1-2)/ 2nd ed. (part 3-7)/ 1st ed. (part 1), in 8 separate parts as originally published, (6 advert.),319,(3)p., handcoloured aquatint title-page.