First Tour Syntax by William Combe (42 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. ROWLANDSON Thomas (illustrator). The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books. 266pp with 31 coloured illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson and spare title label tipped in at rear. Red buckram boards with black titles to cream label pasted to spine. Attractive woodcut bookplate pasted to ffep. Boards and label lightly bumped and worn. Otherwise a nice clean and tight little volume.

Reprint. 8vo. xlviii + 354pp. + 40pp. adverts. Colour frontispiece and 79 plates by T. Rowlandson. Slight browning and occasional foxing, p.113/4 torn without loss, upper hinge cracked, original gilt illustrated green cloth, frayed to joints and edges, with repair work to spine. US$30.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. T. Rowlandson (illustrator). The First Tour only of the three volume set; original green publisher's cloth; hinges tight; all listed 31 plates by Rowlandson are present in excellent condition; [1855] a reprint; re-backed with the original spine laid down; tips bumped; modest shelf wear at edge extremities; light occasional foxing on prelims but not on the text pages.

Half Calf. Condition: Very Good. 3 vols. 80 hand-finished lithographs, by T. Rowlindson. A rare, humorous poem, in its very early binding. Half red calf and dark red mottled cloth boards. A fine, complete and handsome set.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. 3 volumes. 80 fine colored aquatint plates drawn and etched by Rowlandson. 272, 277, 279pp., tall 8vo, rebound in 3/4 blue crushed morocco, top edges gilt. London: Routledge, no date, ca. 1860. A beautiful set.

Condition: Fair. London: Nattali and Bond, No date stated. 9th edition. Volume 1. Sm 4to Hardcover. 272pp. Color illustrations. Reading Copy. Spine broken, front board and first 1/3 of pages detached, but present. Most of spine chipped away. Owner's name on front pastedown. In polypropylene bag. (english literature, poetry, wit) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4th Edition. octavo hardcover volume in green embossed cloth. Spine wear and split at top of front board and bottom of back board.Boards holding. End papers not marked. 276 pages + book catalog. 31 hand colored plates. 4th edition smaller size contents clean and unfoxed.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 334. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1903 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 334.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 350. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1828 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 1 Language: English Pages: 350 Volume 1.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 350. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1828 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 2 Language: English Pages: 350 Volume 2.

The First Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque; The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation; The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of a Wife, three volumes, complete, Nattali and Bond, N.d. but 1855, obvious wear to fore edge corner tips, less so to board edges, six compartments to the somewhat tanned spines. However, this, the 9th edition, has new extra hand colored plates and each of the three text blocks and full color Rowlandson plates are void of foxing, stains, moisture, etc. All in all, a vg copy bound in half calf with marbled boards, marbled end-papers and marbled page edges.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Rowlandson, T. (illustrator). Hardbacks, recent brown cloth spines, gilt titles to spine. Original blind-stamped boards. Complete 3 volume set. Pp. 272; 277; 279. All 80 colour plates as called for. Ex-academic library copy, with usual library markings. Volume 2 does not have an illustrated title page. Boards slightly faded and marked, bumped to extremities. Minor spotting to contents. A pleasing set. A heavy set, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (an19).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. First Second and Third Tour 3 volume set large 8vo with gold embossed red cloth boards. In very nice condition with a little edge wear. to spine edges on back side of 2 volumes. Boards tight and endpapers good. Contents very clean with 80 colored plates. Ist colored title page says ninth edition with new plates. Will require a little extra postage.

Hardcover. Ninth Edition "with New Plates." 6.25 x 10in. 272pp.; 277pp.; 279pp. [4pp., ads.] + 80 hand colored plates. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration. All 3 volumes are in VERY GOOD condition overall, showing the extremities lightly shelf rubbed, the head and foot of the spines with loss, handsome former owner bookplate and signature of the period on the front paste-downs, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text and plates are exceptionally clean and unmarked, and the boards remain distinct. As pictured.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 272p 277p 279p, three volumes in original green cloth, light soiling to cloth, colour plates by Rowlandson throughout, a fresh set, all inner hinges tight, binding flaw in volume 2 (stitching stretched) which results in loseness of a number of sections (text and plates complete), plate 2 in vol 3 has faint humidity traces along margin, text all clean, all cloth hinges tight, corners a little rubbed and dented, a very original set, unadulterated Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 9th. [A Satire on William Gilpin, the famous English traveler in search of the "picturesque."] 3 volume set. Bound in publisher's pebbled orange cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Spines slightly sunned. v.1 has a discoloration mark on its rear cover. Clean, fresh, unmarked pages. 80 hand-colored aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson. 272, 277, & 279 pages, plus publisher's catalogue [4] at end of v.3. Vol. I: The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque; Volume II: The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation; Volume III: The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Later editions. [4], 272; [4], 277, [1 (blank)]; [4], 279, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated in color by T. Rowlandson. Volume I: frontis, engraved t.p. with vignette, 29 inserted & numbered plates, b/w tailpiece p. 272; Volume II: frontis & 23 inserted plates; Volume III: frontis, engraved title, 23 inserted plates. Royal 8vo. 10" x 6-3/8" General shelfwear & rubs to extremities. Bookplate. Occasional spot of foxing to text paper. Plates overall clean & vibrant. A solid VG set. Later maroon half-calf with red cloth boards. TEG.

colour plates by Rowlandson (illustrator). red binding gilt decotrated. Some slight foxing, one plate loose spine split vol one, other 2 vols very good (3 vols).

Condition: Good. [iv], 279 pp. Hand-colored pictorial title page, frontispiece, and 23 hand-colored plates, hand-colored vignette on final page. (8vo) 23.5x15 cm (9¼ x 6") later green half calf and marbled boards, red leather spine label, edge speckled red. First Edition.Combe's doggerel verses were written to accompany Rowlandson's plates depicting the adventures of a roving school-master, this is the final of his three tours. Abbey. Life in England 267; Tooley 429; Gordon Ray, 34.

CLOTH. Condition: VERY GOOD. T. ROLANDSON (illustrator). CA: 1860. THE TOUR OF DR SYNTAX, IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE; A POEM NINTH EDITION WITH NEW PLATES IN THREE VOLUMES ~ VOLUME THE FIRST: THE FIRST TOUR OF DR SYNTAX, IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE; A POEM. VOLUME THE SECOND: THE SECOND TOUR OF DR SYNTAX, IN SEARCH OF CONSOLATION; A POEM. VOLUME THE THIRD: THE THIRD TOUR OF DR SYNTAX, IN SEARCH OF A WIFE; A POEM NINTH EDITION WITH NEW PLATES ILUSTRATED WITH EIGHTY PLATES BY T. ROLANDSON. NATTALI AND BOND 1860 CATALOGUE OF ADS BOUND IN VOLUME 3. 78 FULL PAGE + 2 TITLE PAGE FOR A TOTAL OF 80 HAND COLORED PLATES OF EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY AND CONDITION. GOLD GILT LETTERING AND DECORATION ON SPINES. BLIND STAMP DECORATION ON FRONT AND BACK COVERS. A BIT OF WEAR TO TOP OF SPINES, STILL, AN EYE CATCHING SET. Size: OCTAVO.

George Routledge and Sons. Ninth edition with new plates. No date, c.1880. Vol. I. 270 pages. Hand-coloured Frontis. and vignette title with tissue guard + 29 hand-coloured plates also with tissue guards. Vol. II. 277 pages. Han-coloured frontis + 23 coloured plates all hand-coloured with tissue guards. Vol. III. 279 pages. Hand-coloured frontis. and vignette title with 23 hand-coloured plates all with tissue guards. This makes a total of 80 hand-coloured plates. Original red publisher's cloth binding decorated in gilt and black. Small sections lacking to head of spines and tail of spines chipped. Upper joints and lower edges of boards rubbed. Contents remarkably clean and fresh. An unusually lovely set in the original cloth binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Thomas Rowlandson (illustrator). Complete in three volumes. Volume 1: In Search of the Picturesque: Volume 2: In Search of Consolation: Volume 3: In Search of a Wife. Illustrated with 80 fine hand-colored plates by Rowlandson. Tall 8vo full polished calf by Root. Spines with 5 raised bands and with gilt decorations in compartments. Green and red morocco spine labels. Boards with triple gilt rules and with gilt-decorated turn-ins. Contents clean and fresh with the plates especially bright. Some light flaking to the joints and tips; front joint of volume one cracked but sound, else a fine set, beautifully preserved.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Rowlandson, Thomas (illustrator). Ninth Edition. Book. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 3 volumes each bound in modern full calf in pristine condition, with five raised bands and gilt decoration on the spine, with red title label and black green label with Rowlandson name. 81 hand-colored plates. All volumes tight, with some minor soilage and occasional light fox marks inside. Plates are bright. Volume one has hand-sketched portrait of Combe, the author, along with neat handwritten biography on two leaves of preliminaries.

Full leather. Condition: Very Good +. Thomas Rowlandson (illustrator). A mixed state --as is customary-- of William Combe's epic poem, complete in 3 volumes. Uniformly bound in a handsome, contemporary-to-the-period full-calf, with lovely gilt-bordering at the panels and fine-tooled gilt-decorations within the compartments. Vol. I ("The First Tour of Dr. Syntax: In Search of the Picturesque") is an 1819 stated 8th edition; Vol. II ("The Second Tour of Dr. Syntax: In Search of Consolation") is a stated 3rd edition; and Vol. III ("The Third Tour of Dr. Syntax: In Search of a Wife") is the 1821 1st edition. All 3 volumes are clean and solid and VG+, with very light wear --and just a touch of light chipping-- along the front outer hinges. The Thomas Rowlandson hand-colored plates, running thruout and numbering 81 all told between the 3 volumes, are uniformly crisp and bright and beautifully-rendered. An impressive, well-preserved example of the 3 volume set.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. [Para pedidos desde fuera de España, por favor, consulte las condiciones de venta y envío, tipo A. / For orders to be delivered outside Spain, please, let you see our sale and shipping terms, type A. / Pour les commandes à livrer hors d'Espagne, s'il vous plait, voyez les conditions de vente et de livraison, type A.].- // 3 vols. (251x162mm.).- Vol. I, ".in search of the picturesque": [4], 272 p.; 31 grabados intercalados, incluyendo la anteportada grabada en la que figura la leyenda "Ninth edition with new plates"; grabadito en blanco y negro en última página de vol 1.- Vol. II, ".in search of consolation": [4], 277 p.; 24 grabados intercalados.- Vol. III, ".in search of a wife": [4], 279; 24 grabados intercalados, más una anteportada grabada con viñeta, no incluida en la lista de grabados del volumen, pero sí en el total de 80 anunciados.- Todos los grabados de todos los volúmenes son a la aguatinta coloreados a mano.- // Encuadernación original en tela, realizada por Edmonds & Remnants para la editorial, en color caldera -hay ejemplares en color verde-, con los planos gofrados en seco, el lomo decorado en dorados con la efigie del dr. Syntax y las guardas originales de cartulina amarilla. Mínimo desgarro en margen exterior de p. 264 de v. 1, reparado de época; algún leve principio de oxidación muy disperso. Muy buen ejemplar.- // La novena edición del primer volumen se hizo en 1819, mientras que el segundo y el tercer volumen nunca alcanzaron más de cuatro ediciones. En noviembre de 1854, "The publisher's circular" anunciaba (p. 472) que a partir del 1 de enero de 1855 saldría a la venta una reedición de los tres volúmenes en 12 entregas (una al mes), con 81 grabados. En todo caso, la plancha de la portada grabada del segundo volumen debió echarse a perder, porque nunca se suministró y tuvieron que corregir las portadas impresas.- // Refs.: NCBEL, 2, 648. Libro.

Uniform matching hard back binding in contemporary smooth finest quality brown leather covers with different coloured leather inlaid to the the front and rear boards, raised bands with twin morocco labels to the spines, marble paper end papers, all page edges gilt and gilt dentelles. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 276; 277; 279 printed pages of text with single-sided coloured aquatint plates including coloured frontispiece and title page to each. First Tour is Eighth edition [1819] with new plates, Second Tour is Second edition [1820], Third Tour is First Edition [1821]. General light rubbing to the spine edges, one hinge has been repaired, some off-setting from the plates, but without any foxing to the paper which is particularly clean. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

Paper-Covered Boards. Condition: Fine. Early Reprint. Ninth Edition, complete in three volumes with 80 hand-colored aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson. (Eighty-one plates are called for on the title pages, but the plate lists contain a total of only 79, with the illustrated title page in Vol. 3 unlisted. Presumably, there was an illustrated title page planned for the Second Tour but never included.) Tall 8vo's: [6],272,[6, catalog of books published by Nattali and Bond]; [4],277,[1]; [6],279,[1]pp. Hand-marbled paper-covered boards, finely woven green cloth spines, matching morocco lettering pieces gilt, recently bound by Fitterer, a truly splendid production. Fine bindings; clean, wide-margined pages with only occasional offsetting; vibrant, deep, rich, fresh coloring. Abbey, Life, 265-67. Tooley 427-29. The three tours of Doctor Syntax, featuring the comic, skin-and-bone cleric at the mercy of all manner of misadventures, were supposedly based on an idea of Thomas Rowlandson's close friend, the actor Jack Bannister, and first appeared in 1812, 1820, and 1821, respectively. William Combe's verses for Rowlandson's illustrations, produced by the prestigious publisher and art dealer Rudolph Ackermann, earned Combe his soubrette, Doctor Syntax. "Combining a light-hearted satire of William Gilpin's theory of the picturesque in art with a central character modelled on Cervantes' Don Quixote and Henry Fielding's Parson Adams, Combe created a lovable eccentric whose misadventures on the road structure the Tour. [Other sources for Syntax, drawn from the picturesque tradition, were probably Le Sage's Gil Blas and Smollett's Peregrine Pickle, as well as Samuel Butler's earlier Hudibras.] For over a century the many editions and numerous imitations of the Tour attested to the popularity of Combe's humorous hero." (ODNB) "Combe's first Dr. Syntax book (originally published in the Poetical Magazine in 1809) and its successors . . . satirize the many 18th- and early 19th-century writers whose "Tours," "Travels," and "Journeys" were vehicles for sententious moralizing, uninspired raptures, and sentimental accounts of amorous adventures. The popularity of Combe's work owed much to the illustrations of Thomas Rowlandson." (Britannica) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

1. Volume 1 is 5th. Edition, Vols. 2 and 3 are 1st. Ed. 3 Volumes. 4. Frontisp., Bildert., III, 276,279,277 S., [1] Bl., farb. Taf. (Aquatintaradierungen) Schöne private Halbederbände m. marmoriert.Deckeln, leather binding, gilt title. innen stellenw.stockfl., sonst guter Zustand., inside some foxing, good condition. [Rad. Aquatintabl.] Sprache: Deutschu 3,000 gr.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). 3 volumes. Illustrated with 80 (of 81) fine hand-colored plates by Thomas Rowlandson, including the extra illustrated title pages in 2 of the volumes. Tall 8vo, handsomely bound in contemporary 1/2 brown calf over marbled boards; ornate gilt-stamped spine with black leather labels; marbled endpapers and page edges. London: Nattali and Bond, 1855. Ninth edition. VEry good (+). A uniformly bound set of the Syntax tours: I: The First Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. II: The Second Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of Consolation. III: The Third Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of a Wife.

3 Bände Gr.-8°. Mit 78 Aquatinta-Tafeln. Schwarz- und goldgepr. Orig.-Leinenband. Mit mont. Exlibris und handschr. Besitzereintrag auf dem Vorsatz. Sprache: Deutsch / German + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +.