Thomas Rowlandson's Doctor Syntax Drawings an Intro. 1st Edition Hardback in Dustcover by Jerold J Savory

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THOMAS ROWLANDSON'S DOCTOR SYNTAX DRAWINGS AN INTRODUCTION AND GUIDE FOR COLLECTORS by JEROLD J. SAVORY
London: Cygnus Arts, 1997 First … Read more THOMAS ROWLANDSON'S DOCTOR SYNTAX DRAWINGS AN INTRODUCTION AND GUIDE FOR COLLECTORS by JEROLD J. SAVORY
London: Cygnus Arts, 1997 First Edition Hardcover. Olive boards with silver stamped spine lettering. Gray and color-illustrated dust jacket with white and black lettering. xii, 132 pp. BW and color illustrations.
ISBN: 1900541203
DOCTOR SYNTAX, ONE OF THE MOST popular characters in nineteenth-century English fiction made his public debut in May 1809 in the first issue of Poetical Magazine under the editorial supervision of publisher and art dealer Rudolph Ackermann. Under the title "The Schoolmaster's Tour', the magazine featured its first installment of the adventures and misadventures of this eccentric traveller and pedantic cleric, illustrated with aquatint drawings by the prolific caricaturist and comic artist, Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), with narrative commentary by William Combe.
Each monthly issue of Poetical Magazine contained one or two of Rowlandson's illustrations.
The project was so successful that in 1812, Ackermann put together a book, the first of what would be several editions and reprints, under the title Doctor Syntax In Search of the Picturesque. By 1820, the book had gone through five editions and four reprints, prompting the enterprising editor to continue the story in a sequel in his magazine, immediately put into book form at the end of the year under the title Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation. Once again, success stimulated yet another sequel in 1821 entitled Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife with twenty-five more plates, bringing the total of Rowlandson drawings in the three tours to eighty, the largest number he had done for any of the numerous books he illustrated.
Although Doctor Syntax became something of a folk hero, stimulating many copies in the nine-teenth-century, the last reprint of Rowlandson's own work was in 1868. Since then, the series has never been reproduced in its entirety. Jerold Savory's Thomas Rowlandson's Doctor Syntax Drawings is the first book to include all the illustrations to the three Tours of Doctor Syntax. With over eighty reproductions, each accompanied by a commentary by the author and selections from the original verse, and many illustrations from sequels and other
'Syntaxiana', this book will become the definitive study of Rowlandson's Doctor Syntax illustrations and of the phenomenon that the character became.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jerold Savory is the author of several books and numerous articles on Victorian writers and nineteenth-century caricature artists, including The Vanity Fair Gallery (Associated University Presses, 1979) and The Smiling Muse: Victoriana in the Comic Press (Asso-ciated University Presses, 1985). He received his Ph.D from the University of Michigan in 1971 and has held various posts at Columbia College in South Carolina since 1972, including Chair of the English Department.
The measurements are 10.4” x 8.25”x .75”. See less