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Paperback / softback. New.

Black Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Undated volume, Chandos Classics Edition. 376pp illustrated with 4 colour drawings. Title label to spine, tissue guarded frontis, black endpapers. Deckled edges. Bumping to spine and corners, title label sunned, tissue guard loose and edgeworn. Endpapers foxed. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paperback / softback. New.

London, Frederick Warne, n.d.. 376+[10]pp. 8vo. Original cloth, faded gilt decorated backstrip, faded edges, bumped corners. Colour frontis. Light offsetting to endpapers, lightly foxed edges. A very good copy.

Hardback. New.

London: Frederick Warne & Co. N. D.. 12mo. 376 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and embossed decoration to boards. Chandos Classics edition with coloured illustrations. Wear and bumping to extremities. Binding is loose in parts. Some foxing to fore-edges and scattered cases throughout, but leaves are clear and readable. Includes one colour illustrated plate, as well as a colour illustrated frontispiece. . Good. Gilt-decorated Cloth.

Hardback. New.

London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1871]. Leather. Good. 7" by 5". None stated. William Combe's comic work about the fictional character 'Doctor Syntax', bound in half calf with Thomas Rowlandson's colour plates. The 'Chandos Classics' edition. Bound in half calf with marbled paper to the boards. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and one colour plate by Thomas Rowlandson. This comic work was written by William Combe and tells the story of Doctor Syntax and his three tours. The work satirised William Gilpin, an English artist and cleric, and his ideas of 'The Picturesque', and was originally illustrated in colour by the cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson.Undated, dated by copies found on Jisc. Bound in half calf with marbled paper to the boards. Externally generally smart with fading to the spine, rubbing to the joints, spine and extremities, marks to the boards, wear to the leather to the head of the spine, bumping to the extremities of the boards and rear joint starting slightly. Ink inscriptions… Read More