[Rowlandson, Thomas, illustrator & William Combe]. The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax: 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, 3 volumes, 9th edition, London: Nattali and Bond, 1855, 80 hand-coloured aquatint plates, including frontispieces and additional titles by Thomas Rowlandson (no additional title bound in volume II), later fine tan polished calf by Zaehnsdorf, spines with red and olive morocco labels and decorated in gilt, two corners a little bumped, one or two marks to covers, 8vo, together with The Tour of Doctor Prosody, in Search of the Antique and Picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles, 1st edition, London: Matthew Iley, 1821, 20 hand-coloured plates by C. Williams and W. Read bound at rear, occasional light finger marks, crimson morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, top edge gilt, later burgundy full morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, 8vo (Quantity: 4) Provenance: W. A. Foyle (bookplate to second work). Although the title of the First Tour of Doctor Syntax states there are 81 plates, the plates in each volume collate to its plate list, in volume II there is no mention of an additional title. Other examples of this ninth edition have been found to be complete with either 80 or 81 plates.
[Rowlandson, Thomas, illustrator & William Combe]. The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax: 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, 3 volumes, 9th edition, London: Nattali and Bond, 1855, 80 hand-coloured aquatint plates, including frontispieces and additional titles by Thomas Rowlandson (no additional title bound in volume II), later fine tan polished calf by Zaehnsdorf, spines with red and olive morocco labels and decorated in gilt, two corners a little bumped, one or two marks to covers, 8vo, together with The Tour of Doctor Prosody, in Search of the Antique and Picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles, 1st edition, London: Matthew Iley, 1821, 20 hand-coloured plates by C. Williams and W. Read bound at rear, occasional light finger marks, crimson morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, top edge gilt, later burgundy full morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, 8vo (Quantity: 4) Provenance: W. A. Foyle (bookplate to second work). Although the title of the First Tour of Doctor Syntax states there are 81 plates, the plates in each volume collate to its plate list, in volume II there is no mention of an additional title. Other examples of this ninth edition have been found to be complete with either 80 or 81 plates.
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