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The elder Spence, William Combe, and John Hunter : sidelights on eighteenth-century dentistry and Hunter's Natural history of the human teeth / Lloyd G. Stevenson.

Thomas Rowlandson's Doctor Syntax drawings : an introduction and guide for collectors / by Jerold J. Savory.

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.

Doctor Syntax: a silhouette of William Combe, Esq. (1742-1823) / by Harlan W. Hamilton.

Doctor Syntax attending a scientific demonstration at the Royal Institution, London. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson after W. Combe.

Four scenes from W. Combe's verse Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks, a parody of the Royal college of physicians and John Fothergill (in particular). Engraving, 1771, after W. Combe.

Suttee, with Lord Hastings shown as accepting bribes to allow its continuation. Coloured aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1815, after Quiz.

Four scenes from W. Combe's verse Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks, a parody of the Royal College of Physicians, and in particular John Fothergill. Engraving after W. Combe.

Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.

Four scenes from W. Combe's verse Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks, a parody of the Royal college of physicians and in particular John Fothergill. Engraving after W. Combe.

The diaboliad : a poem. Dedicated to the worst man in His Majesty's dominions.

Additions to the Diaboliad, a poem : dedicated to the worst man in His Majesty's dominions / by the same author.

A history of Madeira. With a series of twenty-seven coloured engravings, illustrative of the costumes, manners, and occupations of the inhabitants of that island / [Anon].

The first of April, or, The triumphs of folly : a poem dedicated to a celebrated dutchess / by the Author of the Diaboliad.

Microcosm of London / [Anon].

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The diaboliad : a poem. Dedicated to the worst man in His Majesty's dominions.

Additions to the Diaboliad, a poem : dedicated to the worst man in His Majesty's dominions / by the same author.

A history of Madeira. With a series of twenty-seven coloured engravings, illustrative of the costumes, manners, and occupations of the inhabitants of that island / [Anon].

The first of April, or, The triumphs of folly : a poem dedicated to a celebrated dutchess / by the Author of the Diaboliad.

Microcosm of London / [Anon].