Tall octavo disbound with remains of calf spine gilt. Hand-coloured frontis (illegible name on back) + titlepage + 254 of 267pp (lacking last 7 leaves). Pages 249-256 repeated in pagination but text and register are continuous. Corner losses not touching print to 6 leaves at front and back, last leaf present stained and browned on back, some corner creases. Here sold for the very fine 24 hand-coloured Plates. *The rarest of the Syntax books as it only seems to have had one printing (1822), plus a 1903 copy of the 1822 edition with the plates colour printed.