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Auction archive: Lot number 121

[Combe (William)] The Life of Napoleon..., hand-coloured aquatint plates by Cruikshank, 1815 & others, Dr. Syntax (5)

Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$484 - US$726
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 121

[Combe (William)] The Life of Napoleon..., hand-coloured aquatint plates by Cruikshank, 1815 & others, Dr. Syntax (5)

Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$484 - US$726
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

[Combe (William)] The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint pictorial title and 29 plates by George Cruikshank plates lightly browned, text foxed and with offsetting from plates, a few with nick to fore-edge, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, slight worming to head of joints,[Abbey, Life 356; Cohn 153; Tooley 151], T.Tegg, [1815]; The Tour Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, third edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, vignette title and 29 plates after Thomas Rowlandson some light soiling or browning, modern half morocco, Ackermann, 1813; [The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax], together 3 vol., vo1.1 with engraved title stating "ninth edition", hand-coloured aquatint vignette titles in vol.1 & 3 and 78 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Thomas Rowlandson some light browning, pp.167-170 and one plate loose, original blind-stamped green cloth, spines pictorial gilt (a little faded), Nattali and Bond, [c.1850], [the last two cf.Abbey, Life 266-267 & Tooley 427-429], 8vo (5)

Auction archive: Lot number 121
Auction:
Datum:
9 Jun 2020
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

[Combe (William)] The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint pictorial title and 29 plates by George Cruikshank plates lightly browned, text foxed and with offsetting from plates, a few with nick to fore-edge, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, slight worming to head of joints,[Abbey, Life 356; Cohn 153; Tooley 151], T.Tegg, [1815]; The Tour Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, third edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, vignette title and 29 plates after Thomas Rowlandson some light soiling or browning, modern half morocco, Ackermann, 1813; [The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax], together 3 vol., vo1.1 with engraved title stating "ninth edition", hand-coloured aquatint vignette titles in vol.1 & 3 and 78 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Thomas Rowlandson some light browning, pp.167-170 and one plate loose, original blind-stamped green cloth, spines pictorial gilt (a little faded), Nattali and Bond, [c.1850], [the last two cf.Abbey, Life 266-267 & Tooley 427-429], 8vo (5)

Auction archive: Lot number 121
Auction:
Datum:
9 Jun 2020
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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