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(ROWLANDSON, THOMAS.)
Group of 4 volumes illustrated by
Rowlandson.
Hand-colored etched plates by Rowlandson. Mostly 8vo, one in boards as
noted, the others in worn calf or morocco. First Editions.
SOLD AS IS
.
London, vd
[500/750]
Chesterfield Travestie. 10 hand-colored plates, including 2 folding (but repaired with cellotape).
12mo, original boards, loose; custom red morocco case by The French Binders. London, 1808 *
Markwell. Advice to Sportsmen. 16 plates. 1809 * Poetical Sketches of Scarborough. 21
plates. Very clean; plates bright. Calf by Root, front cover loose. 1813 * The History of
Johnny Quae Genus, the Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax; A Poem. 21 plates.
Bookplate of Lillian Stokes Gillespie. 1822.
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(RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE.) Mayakovsky, Vladimir.
Kak Delat’ Stikhi [How
to Write Poetry].
12mo, original printed wrappers, stapled, rubbed along fold, some light
discoloration and soft creasing, else quite nice.
FIRST EDITION
. The front and back wrapper
versos with advertisements reproducing covers for 32 titles in this series.
Moscow: Bibliotheka Orgonek, 1927
[300/400]
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(ROWLANDSON, THOMAS.) [Combe, William.]
The Tour of Doctor
Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque * In Search of Consolation.
Together, 2 vol-
umes. Fourth and Second Editions, respectively. 31 and 24 hand-colored aquatint plates by
Rowlandson. 4to, uniform burgundy crushed morocco, by Bennett, joints a bit rubbed;
scattered moderate offsetting, foxing, and soiling.
London: R. Ackermann, 1813; 1820
[300/400]
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(ROWLANDSON, THOMAS.)
[Combe, William, imitation].
Tour of
Doctor Syntax through London; or
the Pleasures and Miseries of the
Metropolis. A Poem.
Hand-colored
engraved frontispiece, title, and 19 plates
by Rowlandson. Full crimson straight-
grain morocco with gilt rules, spine, and
turn-ins, by Wallis, minor rubbing,
removed bookplate from pastedown; scat-
tered minor foxing. First Edition. Tooley
434.
London: J. Johnston, 1820
[250/350]
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