The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the picturesque. A poem.
William Combe (1742-1823).
Category
Books
Date
1813
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3060198
Summary
Bibliographic description
Fourth edition with new plates: [2],iii,[1],276p., [30] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 4to. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: nineteenth-century calf; gouble gilt fillet border; gilt tooled spine; gilt lettered red spine label: Syntax's Tour. (Boards loose.) Gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine [i.e. a Legh family book].
Provenance
original to Lyme, purchased pre 2007
Makers and roles
William Combe (1742-1823). Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756 – London 1827)