THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX in Search of a Wife. A Hudibrastic Poem

Philadelphia J. Clarke, Printer, 1829. 8vo., full tan sheep with plain sides; spine with a black morocco label and gilt decoration. Light occasional foxing. First American edition, reprinted from the last London edition. The frontispiece, a Rowlandsonesque engraving, shows the good doctor astride his horse setting out in search of a wife. First published in England in 1821, this tour of the clergyman-schoolmaster was Combe's third Syntax parody of those popular books and picturesque travels of the day (and particularly those of William Gilpin). Scarce, thus. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION