Doctor Comicus; or The Frolics of Fortune. A Comic, Satirical Poem, for the Squeamish and Queer...by a Surgeon (1828)
London: Jaques & Wright, 1828. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1828, very good, in full calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, colored frontispiece and colored illustrated title page as well as letter press title page, and an additional 13 hand colored plates, 269 pp, light rubbing to edges and joints, but very good indeed. Sometimes attributed to Combe but really a satire of his Dr. Syntax. Thomas Illman, the illustrator, was an engraver and illustrator active in London in the 1820s who moved to New York in 1829 and died in Philadelphia. There was also an edition of this published in 1828 by the publisher Blake, unclear on priority. Very Good. Item #H2784
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