The Dance of Life, a Poem, by the Author of “Doctor Syntax;” Illustrated with Coloured Engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. by [Combe, William] - 1817

London: Methuen and Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1903. Hardcover. Colored engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; viii, 244 pages; Paper label toned, some staining to covers. End matter foxed. “William Combe” penciled on title page .

Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY, Appleton, 1903. After the Ackermann edition of 1817. 244 pages, 26 plates (colored), very good condition (no jacket), mostly unopened. .

D. Appleton & Company, 1903. Hardcover, red cloth with printed paper spine label. 244pp. Illustrated with 24 full color plates by Thomas Rowlandson, plus color title page and frontispiece. Former owner's name and brief incsription inside front cover. Paper spine label worn and toned. Slight wear to cloth at top of backstrip. Text untrimmed. A solid, internally clean copy with 24 wonderfully wry color plates. Based on the 1817 edition published by R. Ackermann. One of the more illusive titles in the Dr. Syntax series. First thus. Good+.. Hardcover. Good+/Not Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London, Methuen, 1903. Illustrated Rowlandson New Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in the original cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 244 pages; Description: viii, 244 p. Col. Plates 18 cm.

London: R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, 1817. First Edition. Mottled Calf. Near Fine+. First Edition in book form (originally published in eight monthly parts), Rowlandson and Combe's companion-piece to their earlier "The Dance of Death" and one of Rowlandson's finest works. Royal 8vo: [2],ii,ii,285,[3]pp, with additional engraved title page, frontispiece (representing Time pointing at various scenes on a screen), and 24 hand-colored engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. (Hardie has shown that the four leaves of advertisements found in some copies could not have been bound in until after 1820.) Contemporary mottled calf, respined, covers framed with gilt role, black morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled edges. An excellent copy, tightly bound, virtually free of foxing, with richly colored examples of the plates. Abbey, Life, 264. Tooley 410. Grolier, Rowlandson, 38. Prideaux, pp. 306-07 ("notably above the ordinary level of Combe's verse. . . . show[ing] the better side of Rowlandson's… Read More

London: Ackerman, 1817. First edition. 26 hand-colored plates by Thomas Rowlandson. ii, [1]-285, [3] pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Full red morocco with gilt tooled spine, covers, and gilt edges, bound by Riviere and Son. Some foxing throughout, some offsetting from plates, otherwise a nice copy. Bookplate of Edward Francis Hutton. Rowlandson, Thomas. First edition. 26 hand-colored plates by Thomas Rowlandson. ii, [1]-285, [3] pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo. E.F. Hutton's Copy. Tooley 410; Grolier, Rowlandson, 38; Abbey, Life, 264; Prideaux, pp. 306-07; Hardie, p. 318

London: R. Ackermann, 1817. First Edition. Near Fine. Thomas Rowlandson. Tall 8vo, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (235 x 147 mm); vi + 285 pp. + advertisement, with 26 richly colored aquatint plates including the engraved title page by Thomas Rowlandson, plate offsets throughout, otherwise pages clean and bright. Contemporary black calf, respined, with old green marbled boards, patterned endpapers, raised bands, gilt title and decorations, marbled edges, headbands; light rubbing to bottom edges. Armorial book plate of Graham M. Adee pasted inside front cover. [Tooley 410; Abbey Life 264; Grolier Rowlandson, 38; Prideaux pp. 306-07 & p. 332; Ray 34, p. 28]. Rowlandson and Combe had begun a successful collaboration in 1810 on the monthly Doctor Synax series for Rudolph Ackermann's Poetical Magazine, with Rowlandson producing the illustrations first and Combe writing the poetry, in iambic tetrameter, second. They continued this collaborative style on further joint works, including The English Dance of Death (our… Read More

London: Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 1817. First. hardcover. near fine. Thomas Rowlandson. 26 hand-colored aquatint plates (including the frontispiece and engraved title) by Thomas Rowlandson. Bound in 3/4 green polished morocco, decoratively gilt spine, marbled boards, top edge gilt. London: Published by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 1817. First edition. Tall 8vo, [10 ], 285 pages. London:R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 1817. First Edition. Ownership bookplate, still a near fine copy.<br/> <br/>

London: Ackermann. 1817. First Edition. VG+, an older period leather binding re-hinged, gilt spine is age darkened, some rubbing to hinges and spine, but still a very solid copy. Plates clean and vivid. ; 8vo, full tan leather, gilt rules and corner embellishments to covers, raised bands with decorative gilt design in six compartments, red spine label, inner dentelles, decorative endpapers, a. E. G. , 26 COLORED engravings BY thomas ROWLANDSON, 285pp. .

London: R. Ackermann, 1817. First edition. First edition. 4to. Bound in full dark crushed brown morocco by The Hampstead Bindery, with superb stippled corner gilt decorations to upper and lower covers. Gilt lettering to spine and gilt ruling at bands. Very wide gilt-ruled turn-ins surrounding a vellum doublure panel, as well as vellum endpaper with gilt stamped bells at each corner. Twenty-six hand-colored aquatint plates (including the frontispiece and engraved title). Measures approx. 6.25î x 10.î Some light rubbing to edges, bumping to bottom corners, and a few minor scratches to back cover, near fine. Paper backing to vellum free endpapers wrinkled (as is standard for Hampstead/GoWB bindings with this treatment). The Hampstead Bindery, founded by Frank Karslake, who later founded the Guild of Women Binders, in January, 1898, as an adjunct to his bookshop in Charing Cross Road. The bindery soon gained momentum and notoriety, employing such luminaries as Alfred de Sauty, Slavoldelli, Samule… Read More