THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX
Lovely Victorian edition in pictorial cloth of this popular comedic poem, executed in reverse order — caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson drew the illustrations before William Combe wrote the text.
Lovely Victorian edition in pictorial cloth of this popular comedic poem, executed in reverse order — caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson drew the illustrations before William Combe wrote the text.
First printing of these Lear-esque nonsense limericks incongruously paired with woodcuts from Dodd's Specimens of Early Early Wood Engraving, much in the manner of contemporary internet memes beloved by the very online medievalists of our times.
First edition, first printing of this parody of classic poems written with pigs as the characters, with "punny" authors like William Porker Yeats, Percy Bygge Belley etc., and with a review by the New Pork Times.