Doctor Syntax's three tours: . in search of the picturesque, consolation, and a wife. By William Combe. The original edition, complete and unabridged, with the life and adventures of the author, now first written, by John Camden Hotten.Eighty full page illustrations drawn and coloured after the originals by T. Rowlandson.
William Combe (1742-1823).
Category
Books
Date
1869
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3018239
Summary
Bibliographic description
xlviii,354p.,plates . ill.. . 8vo. Page 187 torn, affecting text.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Half green leather; marbled boards and edges; red title label, gilt-lettered.
Makers and roles
William Combe (1742-1823). John Camden Hotten (1832-1873). Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756 – London 1827)