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Doctor Syntax in Paris First Edition 1820

Title: Doctor Syntax in Paris Or A Tour in Search of the Grotesque
Author: [Combe, William]
Description: viii, 318 pp. 18 hand-colored plates, including pictorial title page. (8vo) 9¼x5¾, later full gilt-ruled red morocco, raised bands, spine compartments lettered and ruled in gilt. First Edition.The first Dr. Syntax book was written by William Combe and published in 1812. The bumbling Doctor became wildly popular, inspiring a number of imitators and parodies, of which this title is one. "The author of the text is unknown, but, although this is manifestly in plates and general style a Syntax imitation, the text might conceivably be genuinely by Combe". - (Abbey, Travel 109). Tooley 432.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: W. Wright
Date Published: 1820