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The Tour of Doctor Syntax (Containing the First, Second and Third Tour) Author: Combe, William Place: London Publisher: R. Ackermann Date: 1812; 1820; [1821] Description: 3 volumes. (8vo) 22.2x14 cm (8¾x5½"), finely bound by Bayntun (Riviere) in red gilt-ruled polished calf, tooled in gilt on spine with black and green morocco lettering pieces, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Presented in custom cloth-covered slipcase. First Editions. Includes: The Tour of Doctor Syntax In Search of the Picturesque: A Poem. vi, 274 pp. With 30 hand-colored aquatint plates and title with hand-colored vignette. First edition, first issue. The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation: A Poem. [vi], 277 pp. With 24 hand-colored aquatint plates. The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife. [iv], 279 pp. With 23 (of 24) hand-colored aquatint plates, title-page and final page with hand-colored vignettes. A satire on the famous traveler of the British Isles and explorer of the "picturesque", William Gilpin Archly illustrated by Rowlandson and finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere. First issue of the first tour, with "Chapter I" heading and first state of plate 5, "Doctor Syntax Bound to a Tree by Highwaymen," second state of plate 15 in the Second Tour. The First Tour features three illustrations not included in its serial issue, namely the frontispiece, vignette title, and plate 28, "The Doctors Dream or the Battle of Books." Abbey Life 266-267; Tooley 427-429. Volume III bound without plate 23, "A Noble Hunting Party". Lot Amendments Condition: Only hints of wear to calf and labels; hints of foxing with minor offsetting from plates, else fine. Item number: 348054