The History of Johnny QuAE Genus, the Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax. / A Poem by the Author of the Three Tours.

William Combe

PREFACE

LIST OF THE PLATES

THE HISTORY OF JOHNNY QUAE GENUS OR The Foundling of Doctor Syntax

THE ILLUSTRATED POCKET LIBRARY
OF PLAIN AND COLOURED BOOKS

THE HISTORY OF
JOHNNY QUÆ GENUS

What various views of our uncertain State
These playful, unassuming Rhymes relate!
Anon

Drawn by Rowlandson

QuÆ Genus on his Journey To London.

THE HISTORY
OF
JOHNNY QUÆ GENUS
THE LITTLE FOUNDLING OF
THE LATE DOCTOR SYNTAX
A POEM BY THE AUTHOR OF
THE THREE TOURS

WITH TWENTY-FOUR
COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS
BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON

A NEW EDITION

METHUEN & CO.
LONDON
1903

NOTE

THIS Issue is founded on the Edition
published by R. Ackermann in the
year 1822

HISTORY
OF
QUÆ GENUS, ETC.

THE favour which has been bestowed on the different Tours of Doctor Syntax, has encouraged the Writer of them to give a History of the Foundling, who has been thought an interesting Object in the latter of those Volumes; and it is written in the same style and manner, with a view to connect it with them.

This Child of Chance, it is presumed, is led through a track of Life not unsuited to the peculiarity of his Condition and Character, while its varieties, as in the former Works, are represented by the Pencil of Mr. Rowlandson with its accustomed characteristic Felicity.

The Idea of an English Gil Blas predominated through the whole of this Volume; which must be considered as fortunate in no common degree, if its readers, in the course of their perusal, should be disposed to acknowledge even a remote Similitude to the incomparable Work of Le Sage.

The AUTHOR.

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THE HISTORY OF JOHNNY QUÆ GENUS THE LITTLE FOUNDLING OF THE LATE DOCTOR SYNTAX A POEM BY THE AUTHOR OF THE THREE TOURS

THE HISTORY
OF
JOHNNY QUÆ GENUS
THE LITTLE FOUNDLING OF
THE LATE DOCTOR SYNTAX
A POEM BY THE AUTHOR OF
THE THREE TOURS