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Hamilton, Harlan W : Doctor Syntax: A Silhouette of William Combe, Esq. (1742-1823)

Kent State University Press, Kent, OH, 1969

Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket, Tall 8vo, 340 pp.

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Hamilton, Harlan W : Doctor Syntax; a silhouette of William Combe, Esq. (1742 - 1823)

(London, Chatto & Windus, 1969)

Pictorial dustwrapper, frayed, original buckram, gilt, pp. xix + 340, a few illustrations. 'Hackwriter, satirist, comic poet, Rowlandson's collaborator, Editor of The Times when not in prison for debt, raconteur, life-long enigma: his adventures and misadventures.' 'Thousands of nineteenth-century readers knew the Tours of Doctor Syntax, loved the old-fashioned hero and the aquatints by Rowlandson illustrating the tours, and never heard of the author, William Combe. This was exactly as Combe intended; for half a century of authorship, he never signed a single work. He preferred to be known as a gentleman of leisure, a literary dilettante, even when busily turning out book after book from his quarters in debtors' prison.'

Hamilton, Harlan W : Doctor Syntax: A Silhouette of William Combe, Esq. (1742-1823)

London: Chatto & Windus, 1969.

4to. 340 pp., illus. Near fine in dust jacket.

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