![[ROWLANDSON, THOMAS]. [COMBE, WILLIAM, ET AL.] Poetical Magazine; Dedicated to the Lovers of the Muse. London: R. Ackermann, 1809-[11]..](http://images2.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2012-03/02/8501426-36-1.jpg&tmp=web300&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000&dt=zoom_image "[ROWLANDSON, THOMAS]. [COMBE, WILLIAM, ET AL.] Poetical Magazine; Dedicated to the Lovers of the Muse. London: R. Ackermann, 1809-[11].. Sold for US$ 812 inc. premium")
16 Apr 2012
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Fine Books and Manuscripts featuring the Michael Lerner Collection
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Fine Books and Manuscripts featuring the Michael Lerner Collection
Back to auction 19972
ROWLANDSON, THOMAS, illustrator.
[COMBE, WILLIAM, ET AL.] Poetical Magazine; Dedicated to the Lovers of the Muse. London: R. Ackermann, 1809-[11].
4 volumes. 8vo (202 x 125 mm). iv, [5]-404, [4]; 372, [4]; 364, [4]; 342, [3] pp. Engraved title in each volume and with 51 hand-colored plates and 1 uncolored plate. Full mottled calf by R. Wallis, raised bands, gilt spine compartments, morocco spine labels, gilt double rule to covers, dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Intermittent toning to leaves, some rubbing to joints, covers, and spines.
FEATURING THE ORIGINAL ISSUE OF DOCTOR SYNTAX under the title of "The Schoolmaster's Tour." Abbey notes that the poem "was composed by William Combe from the drawings of Rowlandson, and not, as would be expected, vice versa." Abbey Life 214; Tooley 421.
4 volumes. 8vo (202 x 125 mm). iv, [5]-404, [4]; 372, [4]; 364, [4]; 342, [3] pp. Engraved title in each volume and with 51 hand-colored plates and 1 uncolored plate. Full mottled calf by R. Wallis, raised bands, gilt spine compartments, morocco spine labels, gilt double rule to covers, dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Intermittent toning to leaves, some rubbing to joints, covers, and spines.
FEATURING THE ORIGINAL ISSUE OF DOCTOR SYNTAX under the title of "The Schoolmaster's Tour." Abbey notes that the poem "was composed by William Combe from the drawings of Rowlandson, and not, as would be expected, vice versa." Abbey Life 214; Tooley 421.
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US$ 812
inc. premium
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