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Lot Description

[FINE BINDINGS] -- A group of 5 works in 7 volumes with finely bound, comprising:

COMBE, William. Thomas Rowlandson, illustrator. The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. --The Second Tour of Dr. Syntax, in Search of Consolation. --The Third Tour of Dr. Syntax, in Search of a Wife. London: Ackermann, 1821. 3 volumes. 20th-century red calf gilt. Later editions. [With:] BARHAM, Richard Harris Dalton. The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels. London: Richard Bentley, 1870. Vol. I only (of 2). 20th-century blue morocco gilt. Annotated edition. – CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain"). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1890. Original publisher’s pictorial green cloth gilt; folding case. Later issue. BAL 3429. -- THACKERAY, William Makepeace ("Michael Angelo Titmarsh"). Rebecca and Rowena. A Romance Upon Romance. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Original pictorial boards; slipcase. -- THACKERAY. Doctor Birch & his young friends. London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. Original pictorial boards; slipcase. -- Together 5 works in 7 volumes, all 8vo, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.

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