London: R. Ackermann, 1809-11. First edition. DR. SYNTAX BEGINS HERE. "Quite the most original and prosperous of poetry journals at the beginning of the 19th century" (Graham), The Poetical magazine is an important color plate work notable for the first appearance of the famous Doctor Syntax: The Schoolmaster's Tour ran..... Read More about The Poetical Magazine. Volumes One through Four
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London: W. Wright, 1820. Williams, Charles. First edition. Syntax Spinoff. The plates of this rollicking Doctor Syntax spinoff are by Charles Williams, chief caricaturist for the printseller Fores, and they are as fully irreverent as the Rowlandson (and Gillray) plates which were his inspiration, and all the more so for..... Read More about Doctor Syntax in Paris; or, A Tour in Search of the Grotesque
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London: Published by R.Ackermann, nd. Read More about The Third Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of a Wife
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London: Harris & Son, 1821. Second edition (first printed 1820). Rare, with 16 Hand-Colored Plates. Rare in any condition. OCLC records only 3 copies of this second edition, and only three of the first. Read More about Sam Syntax's Description of the Cries of London as They Are Daily Exhibited in the Streets
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London: Ackermann, 1816. First Edition, First Issue (paper watermarked 1816). This folio forms part of one of Ackermann’s larger, though not so successful projects, his History of the Colleges. Ford in his book on Ackermann notes that William Combe wrote the text for this, as well as five other schools..... Read More about History of the Merchant Taylors' School
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London: Mathew Iley, Somerset Street, 1821. First edition. UNCUT AND IN BOARDS. This is a satire on Samuel Johnson"s Tour of the Hebrides. Read More about The Tour of Doctor Prosody, In Search of The Antique and The Picturesque through Scotland, The...
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London: R. Ackerman, 1822. Rowlandson, Thomas. First edition. The Last Syntax, in Original Boards. The last of the authentic Combe-Rowlandson Dr. Syntax series, whose success prompted numerous imitations. This remainder binding, in superb shape, resembles that seen on the earlier Syntax books, but we have never seen it on Johny..... Read More about The History of Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax: a Poem, by the...
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London: 1821. Rowlandson, Thomas. First edition. Read More about The Tour of Doctor Prosody, In Search of The Antique and The Picturesque
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London: Published for R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts. 101, Strand, 1820. Rowlandson, Thomas. Second Edition. IN BOARDS, UNCUT. Read More about The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, In Search of Consolation; A Poem
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London: 1864. Fine copy. Read More about The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque; A Poem
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London: R. Ackermann, 1828. Fourth miniature edition. The first miniature edition was 1823. Read More about The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax. In Search of Consolation
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