ACKERMANN, Rudolph, publisher. A History of the University of Oxford. London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1814.
ACKERMANN, Rudolph, publisher. A History of the University of Oxford. London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1814. 2 volumes, 4º (408 x 321mm). Half-titles. 6-page subscribers' list. Engraved portrait of Lord Grenville by H. Meyer after W. Owen on india paper (foxed), 114 hand-coloured plates, comprising 64 aquatint views by Bluck, Stadler, Hill and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others; 17 hand-coloured stipple- and line-engraved costume plates and 32 hand-coloured stipple- and line- engraved portraits of the founders of the various colleges. (Two founders plates with faint foxing, an intermittent marginal rust-spot in the second volume, overall very clean and fresh.) Contemporary blue straight-grained half morocco decorated in gilt and blind, presumably bound from the original parts, with stab holes preserved (some light rubbing); cloth slipcases. Provenance : acquired at Parke-Bernet, 15 May 1943. FIRST EDITION, LARGE-PAPER COPY, EARLY STATES: plates 1,13, 50, 78, 84 and 94 in first state; plates 39 and 74 in second state, with overslips. Prepublication watermarks. Abbey Scenery 280; Tooley 5.
ACKERMANN, Rudolph, publisher. A History of the University of Oxford. London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1814.
ACKERMANN, Rudolph, publisher. A History of the University of Oxford. London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1814. 2 volumes, 4º (408 x 321mm). Half-titles. 6-page subscribers' list. Engraved portrait of Lord Grenville by H. Meyer after W. Owen on india paper (foxed), 114 hand-coloured plates, comprising 64 aquatint views by Bluck, Stadler, Hill and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others; 17 hand-coloured stipple- and line-engraved costume plates and 32 hand-coloured stipple- and line- engraved portraits of the founders of the various colleges. (Two founders plates with faint foxing, an intermittent marginal rust-spot in the second volume, overall very clean and fresh.) Contemporary blue straight-grained half morocco decorated in gilt and blind, presumably bound from the original parts, with stab holes preserved (some light rubbing); cloth slipcases. Provenance : acquired at Parke-Bernet, 15 May 1943. FIRST EDITION, LARGE-PAPER COPY, EARLY STATES: plates 1,13, 50, 78, 84 and 94 in first state; plates 39 and 74 in second state, with overslips. Prepublication watermarks. Abbey Scenery 280; Tooley 5.
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