Doctor Syntax: a Silhouette of William Combe, Esq by HAMILTON, Harlan W - 1969

Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. 1969. 1st. hardcover. Tall 8vo, 340 pp. .

Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Dark olive cloth-effect boards, lettered on spine panel in gold foil. Spine panel mildly sunned, slight binding lean, otherwise about as issued. Stated 1st ed. xix,340 pp..

Hardback. Very Good.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1969. First edition. hardcover. very good/very good. 8vo. pp.340

Kent State Univ Pr. Used - Very Good. 1969. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Tall 8vo. In acetate cover. 340 numbered pp. Minor shelf wear, slight scuffing to jacket. Jacket is price clipped. Some foxing to head of text block, actual text unaffected. Else a bright, clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Books).

(Ohio): The Kent State University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 340pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Corners modestly rubbed, spine slightly sunned, very good, lacking the dust jacket.

Kent State, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Plate Illustrations. The definitive biography of Thomas Rowlandson's collaborator in his famous satires, a satirist and hackwriter who edited The Times. A superb copy, unmarked and unclipped.

N.p.: The Kent State University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, dust jacket. xix, 340pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear and archivally-closed (on verso) edge tears. Handsome, tight first edition.

(London, Chatto & Windus, 1969). Pictorial dustwrapper, frayed, original buckram, gilt, pp. xix + 340, a few illustrations. 'Hackwriter, satirist, comic poet, Rowlandson's collaborator, Editor of The Times when not in prison for debt, raconteur, life-long enigma: his adventures and misadventures.' 'Thousands of nineteenth-century readers knew the Tours of Doctor Syntax, loved the old-fashioned hero and the aquatints by Rowlandson illustrating the tours, and never heard of the author, William Combe. This was exactly as Combe intended; for half a century of authorship, he never signed a single work. He preferred to be known as a gentleman of leisure, a literary dilettante, even when busily turning out book after book from his quarters in debtors' prison.' .

The Kent State University Press, 1969.. First U.S Edition; 8vo; pp. xx 340; illustrated frontispiece, list of illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; original cloth, minor chipping to dustjacket; minor flecking to top edge of pages; otherwise a very good copy.