ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). Microcosm of London. London: T. Bensley for R. Ackermann, [1808-1810, plates watermarked 1807-1809, one plate in vol. II watermarked 1801].
ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). Microcosm of London. London: T. Bensley for R. Ackermann, [1808-1810, plates watermarked 1807-1809, one plate in vol. II watermarked 1801]. 3 volumes, 4° (336 x 267mm). Half-titles, wood-engraved titles, engraved dedication leaves with stippled vignettes, and 104 hand-coloured numbered aquatint plates by Buck, Stadler and others after Thomas Rowlandson and Charles Pugin. (Text of vol. I rather browned, offsetting to text, occasional isolated spots to plates.) Contemporary purple straight-grained morocco tooled in gilt and blind [endpapers watermarked 1812], covers with cross-hatched centre panel and roll-tool border in Gothic architectural pattern, gilt spine with Gothic motifs, gilt turn-ins to a fan design, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, spines evenly faded). Provenance : Christopher Turnor, Stoke Rochford Library (bookplate) -- Hermann Mark (bookplate) -- Brent Gration-Maxfield (inscription dated 1975). FINELY BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS, with all the errata uncorrected except for the word 'Coustom' and with contents leaf of vol. I headed 'Contents' not 'Contents vol. I'. Of the 12 plates cited by Abbey as exisitng in a first state, this copy contains 8 or 9. The rumbustious figures of Rowlandson were the perfect foil to Pugin's clear and accurate architectural settings, making Ackermann's publication an acknowledged matserpiece. Printing continued for nearly 30 years, but, as Abbey notes, the 'original impressions of these splendid plates have a luminous quality entirely absent from later printings'. Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7. (3)
ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). Microcosm of London. London: T. Bensley for R. Ackermann, [1808-1810, plates watermarked 1807-1809, one plate in vol. II watermarked 1801].
ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). Microcosm of London. London: T. Bensley for R. Ackermann, [1808-1810, plates watermarked 1807-1809, one plate in vol. II watermarked 1801]. 3 volumes, 4° (336 x 267mm). Half-titles, wood-engraved titles, engraved dedication leaves with stippled vignettes, and 104 hand-coloured numbered aquatint plates by Buck, Stadler and others after Thomas Rowlandson and Charles Pugin. (Text of vol. I rather browned, offsetting to text, occasional isolated spots to plates.) Contemporary purple straight-grained morocco tooled in gilt and blind [endpapers watermarked 1812], covers with cross-hatched centre panel and roll-tool border in Gothic architectural pattern, gilt spine with Gothic motifs, gilt turn-ins to a fan design, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, spines evenly faded). Provenance : Christopher Turnor, Stoke Rochford Library (bookplate) -- Hermann Mark (bookplate) -- Brent Gration-Maxfield (inscription dated 1975). FINELY BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS, with all the errata uncorrected except for the word 'Coustom' and with contents leaf of vol. I headed 'Contents' not 'Contents vol. I'. Of the 12 plates cited by Abbey as exisitng in a first state, this copy contains 8 or 9. The rumbustious figures of Rowlandson were the perfect foil to Pugin's clear and accurate architectural settings, making Ackermann's publication an acknowledged matserpiece. Printing continued for nearly 30 years, but, as Abbey notes, the 'original impressions of these splendid plates have a luminous quality entirely absent from later printings'. Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7. (3)
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