Doctor Comicus; or the frolics of fortune. A comic satirical poem, for the squeamish and the queer. In twelve cantos / By a surgeon. Illustrated with numerous plates.

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Doctor Comicus; or the frolics of fortune. A comic satirical poem, for the squeamish and the queer. In twelve cantos / By a surgeon. Illustrated with numerous plates. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Adventures of Doctor Comicus
Doctor Comicus

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London : Jaques & Wright, 1828.

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1 unnumbered leaf, 269 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : 13 color illustrations, color frontispiece ; (8vo)

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An imitation of The tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque / William Combe ; engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. Cf. Doctor Syntax / H.W. Hamilton. 1969. p. 318
Originally published as: The adventures of Doctor Comicus, or, The frolicks of fortune / by a modern Syntax. Cf. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860 / R.V. Tooley. no. 431
The makeup of this ed. follows Tooley 431, save for the absence of Tooley plates 11 and 15, the appearance of Tooley plates 10 and 14 at pages 114 and 176, and the inclusion of an untitled plate (Tooley 11?) at p. 210. In each case the plates relate to the text at the page of insertion.
Added engr. t.p., colored

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