Author: Combe, William (author) and Thomas, Rowlandson, illustrator)
Title: The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife. First Edition
Description: London: R. A. Ackermann, 1823. [iv], 279 pp. Hand-colored pictorial title page, frontispiece, and 23 hand-colored plates, hand-colored vignette on final page. (8vo) 23.5x15 cm (9¼ x 6") later green half calf and marbled boards, red leather spine label, edge speckled red. First Edition. Combe's doggerel verses were written to accompany Rowlandson's plates depicting the adventures of a roving school-master, this is the final of his three tours. Abbey. Life in England 267; Tooley 429; Gordon Ray, 34. .

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