[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] THE THREE TOURS OF DOCTOR SYNTAX. THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX, IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE. | THE SECOND TOUR IN SEARCH OF CONSOLATION. | THE THIRD TOUR ... IN SEARCH OF A WIFE. (THREE VOLUMES)
London: [1821]. Half Leather. Third Edition. A satire, by William Combe, of William Gilpin’s notion of the ‘Picturesque,’ who famously said that Tintern Abbey might be improved with “a mallet judiciously used.” Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson, the famous English caricaturist.....