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ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings . London: L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh for R. Ackermann, 1814 [pre-publication watermarks]. 2 volumes, 4 o (338 x 272 mm). Half-titles, 6-page subscriber's list. Engraved portrait of Lord Grenville by H. Meyer after W. Owen and 114 hand-colored plates, comprising 64 aquatint views by Bluck, Stadler, Hill, and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others, 17 stipple and line-engraved costume plates and 32 stipple and line-engraved portraits of the founders of the colleges (five plates misbound, a few short marginal tears, some light spotting and pale offsetting.) FIRST EDITION, plates 1 and 50 in Abbey's first state; plates 15, 39, 74, 78, 84 and 94 in Abbey's second state (plates 39 and 74 with overslips). Abbey Scenery 280; Tooley 5. [ With :] A History of the University of Cambridge, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings . London: L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh for R. Ackermann, 1815 [pre-publication watermarks] 2 volumes, 4 o (336 x 275 mm). Half-titles, 4-page subscriber's list. Engraved portrait of the Duke of Gloucester and 95 hand-colored plates, comprising 64 aquatint views by Stadler, Havell, Bluck and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others, 15 stipple and line engraved plates and 16 stipple and line engraved portraits of the founders of the colleges (one plate misbound, light spotting and offsetting.) FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 80; Tooley 4. Together 4 volumes. Uniformly bound in contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, sides panelled in gilt and blind, gilt-lettered on spine, edges gilt (spines slightly darkened, spines and board edges very lightly rubbed). Provenance : purchased at Sotheby's London, 4 June 1973, lot 135, through Pickering & Chatto, London. A FINE SET. (4)