[Rarebooks] FS: Three Tours of Doctor Syntax with 80 hand-colored plates after Thomas Rowlandson

[Charles Agvent]

[COMBE, William] THE THREE TOURS OF DOCTOR SYNTAX
Nattali & Bond London n.d. Ninth Edition.  Three large octavo (5-3/4" x 9-5/8") 
volumes bound in contemporary half calf, gilt.  With two hand-colored engraved 
title pages and 78 hand-colored plates after Thomas Rowlandson.  Includes the 
Search of the Picturesque, of Consolation, and of a Wife.  Attractive set of 
this classic.  Offsetting to text pages facing the plates.  Occasional loose 
page.  Minor rubbing.  Near Fine   $950.00
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