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The Adventures of Doctor Comicus or the Frolicks of Fortune. (Dr. Comicus)
by [COMBE William] 1742-1823
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Llandudno, Conwy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: No 13, Bell Yard, Temple Bar.: B. Blake. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ILLMAN Thomas D1859/60. VG, 1815, 1st ed, 15 pls (complete). In contemporary green quarter cloth over marked brown boards, corners & edges a little bumped & worn. Spine, worn ink title to white paper label, edges bumped & worn. Internally, coloured frontis, additional engraved TP with hand coloured image, [2], [1], 2-269 pp, 15 pls (hand coloured), text block edges uncut, printed by J McGowan and Son, Great Windmill Street. A very nice copy, un-restored. (136*227 mm). (Abbey Life 254. Tooley 238. Prideaux 334). No matter how much Combe earned from his various publications, he always spent more! He died, still in debt, at his Lambeth Road address on 19 June 1823. The obituary in The Times the next day stated that: [h]e was a gentleman who, in the course of this protracted life, had suffered many fortunes, and had become known to so many people in every rank of society, that it hardly seems necessary to draw his character. There was hardly a person of any note in his time, with whose history he was not in some degree acquainted. ODNB. Title continues: A comic satirical poem for the squeamish & the queer. In twelve cantos, by a Modern Syntax.
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- Bookseller
- Madoc Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004361
- Title
- The Adventures of Doctor Comicus or the Frolicks of Fortune. (Dr. Comicus)
- Author
- [COMBE William] 1742-1823
- Illustrator
- ILLMAN Thomas D1859/60
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- B. Blake
- Place of Publication
- London: No 13, Bell Yard, Temple Bar.
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Combe Humor Syntax Comicus
- Bookseller catalogs
- Comedy Humour Caricatures;
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