ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). Microcosm of London. London: T. Bensley for Ackermann, [1808 - 1810]. 3 volumes, 4° (340 x 277mm). 3 wood-engraved titles, 3 engraved dedications, 3 half-titles. 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Bluck, Stadler and others after Rowlandson and Pugin. (Some browning of text, some offsetting of plates onto text.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, lavishly tooled in gilt and blind, g.e. (rebacked). Provenance : The Rt. Hon. Lord Gray (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. A set with early watermarks, the correc titles, the contents leaf in vol. I in its first state and at least 4 of the plates in their first states. Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7. (3)
ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). Microcosm of London. London: T. Bensley for Ackermann, [1808 - 1810]. 3 volumes, 4° (340 x 277mm). 3 wood-engraved titles, 3 engraved dedications, 3 half-titles. 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Bluck, Stadler and others after Rowlandson and Pugin. (Some browning of text, some offsetting of plates onto text.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, lavishly tooled in gilt and blind, g.e. (rebacked). Provenance : The Rt. Hon. Lord Gray (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. A set with early watermarks, the correc titles, the contents leaf in vol. I in its first state and at least 4 of the plates in their first states. Abbey Scenery 212; Tooley 7. (3)
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