first edition Engraved title page & 16 [of 17] hand-colored aquatint plates after Charles Williams. 1 vols. 8vo
1820 · London
by [Combe, William?]
London: W. Wright, 1820. First edition. Engraved title page & 16 [of 17] hand-colored aquatint plates after Charles Williams. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary boards, recased and rebacked in later cloth. One plate detached. Lacking Abbey's Plate 12 ("Doctor Syntax / producing his certificate of marriage to his hostess"). Williams, Charles. First edition. Engraved title page & 16 [of 17] hand-colored aquatint plates after Charles Williams. 1 vols. 8vo. Syntax Spinoff. The plates of this rollicking Doctor Syntax spinoff are by Charles Williams, chief caricaturist for the printseller Fores, and they are as fully irreverent as the Rowlandson (and Gillray) plates which were his inspiration, and all the more so for their Gallic setting. As for the text, "it might conceivably be genuinely by Combe ... " - Abbey. Abbey Travel 109; Houfe, p. 498
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