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Combe William.

DOCTOR SYNTAX'S THREE TOURS. In search of the Picturesque, Consolation, and a Wife. The Text complete, and unabridged, with eight illustrations selected from the more fully Illustrated Edition. 1870 circa.

John Camden Hotten, 1870

40,00 €

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(Lucca, Italia)

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Año de publicación
1870
Lugar de impresión
London
Autor
Combe William.
Editores
John Camden Hotten
Materia
LETTERATURA, OPERE IN LINGUA ORIGINALE
Sobrecubierta
No
Conservación
Aceptable
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Copia autógrafa
No
Condiciones
Usado

Descripción

Testo inglese. Cm.19,2x12. Pg.354, (10). Legatura in tela con titoli in oro al dorso. Testo su due colonne. Otto tavole satiriche di R. Rowlandson a colori fuori testo. Doppio frontespizio, il secondo figurato. Ex libris William Minturn. "From 1809 to 1811 Come (Bristol, 1742-1823) wrote for Ackermann's "The Poetical Magazine" the serialized comic poem "The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque", descriptive and moralizing verse illustrated by artist Thomas Rowlandson's color plates. It satirised William Gilpin, who toured Britain to describe his theory of the Picturesque. It was collected in book form in 1812, and was followed by two similar Tours, ".in search of Consolation" (1819) and ".in search of a Wife", the first Mrs Syntax having died at the end of the first Tour. The second Tour was collected as an 1820 book, and the third tour as an 1821 book" (da Wikipedia). Codice libreria 169152.
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