ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Oxford . London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1814 [pre-publication watermarks]. 2 volumes, 4° (352 x 293mm). Half-titles, 6pp. subscribers' list. Engraved portrait of Lord Grenville by H. Meyer after W. Owen, 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. (Neatly repaired tear to lower margin of title of vol.II, uncoloured portrait and a few text leaves spotted, four plates significantly misbound.) 20th-century light blue half morocco gilt, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with double fillet borders enclosing a large centrally-placed arabesque tool, top edges gilt the others uncut (very slight scuffing and discolouration). A fine large set, uniformly bound with the previous lot (Ackermann's Cambridge ). Abbey plate nos. 50 and 94 in their first state. Abbey Scenery 280; Tooley 5. (2)
ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Oxford . London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1814 [pre-publication watermarks]. 2 volumes, 4° (352 x 293mm). Half-titles, 6pp. subscribers' list. Engraved portrait of Lord Grenville by H. Meyer after W. Owen, 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. (Neatly repaired tear to lower margin of title of vol.II, uncoloured portrait and a few text leaves spotted, four plates significantly misbound.) 20th-century light blue half morocco gilt, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and third, the others with double fillet borders enclosing a large centrally-placed arabesque tool, top edges gilt the others uncut (very slight scuffing and discolouration). A fine large set, uniformly bound with the previous lot (Ackermann's Cambridge ). Abbey plate nos. 50 and 94 in their first state. Abbey Scenery 280; Tooley 5. (2)
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