[1815] The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

Description

Colour Plates, Early Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

The sixth edition.

Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, hand-coloured title vignette, and twenty-nine hand-coloured plates.

Title page is closely trimmed to the tail, resulting in the loss of the publishing information. Publishing information for this sixth edition taken from Jisc.

Collated, lacking the first leaf of the advertisement to the front (page i/ii), but all plates are present.

'Doctor Syntax' is a comic character, a satire of William Gilpin. He published three satirical poems in this series, showing Syntax touring Britain, in order to describe his theory of the Picturesque. 

A brilliantly entertaining Georgian poem which was originally serialized in 'The Poetical Magazine'. Combe satrisies William Gilpin, who, like Syntax, toured Britain to find the picturesque.

Written by William Combe, a British author, who is best remembered today for his Doctor Syntax works. 

Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, a celebrated English artist and caricaturist.