ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Oxford . London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J. C. Leigh, 1814. 115 plates including uncoloured portrait of Lord Grenville, 64 hand-coloured aquatint views after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others by Bluck, Stadler, Hill and others, 17 coloured costume plates by Agar after Unwins and 33 coloured portraits of the founders A History of the University of Cambridge . London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J. C. Leigh, 1815. 96 plates including uncoloured portrait of the Duke of Gloucester, 64 aquatint views by Stadler, Havell, Bluck and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others, 15 coloured costume plates and 16 coloured portraits of the founders. 4 volumes, 4° (347 x 280mm.), plates watermarked 1812 throughout. Uniform contemporary diced russia, finely tooled in gilt and blind, sides with broad outer key-pattern border, spines in 6 compartments, g.e., inner gilt dentelles, purple endpapers, engraved armorial bookplate of William Carlyon, Tregrehan, Cornwall, contained in 4 velvet-lined, morocco-backed buckram boxes. EXCEPTIONALLY FINE UNIFORMLY BOUND SET of early issues of Oxford and Cambridge with half-titles, lists of subscribers, lists of plates, portraits of the founders and pre-publication watermark. Abbey Scenery 280 & 80; Tooley 5 & 4. (4)
ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Oxford . London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J. C. Leigh, 1814. 115 plates including uncoloured portrait of Lord Grenville, 64 hand-coloured aquatint views after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others by Bluck, Stadler, Hill and others, 17 coloured costume plates by Agar after Unwins and 33 coloured portraits of the founders A History of the University of Cambridge . London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J. C. Leigh, 1815. 96 plates including uncoloured portrait of the Duke of Gloucester, 64 aquatint views by Stadler, Havell, Bluck and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others, 15 coloured costume plates and 16 coloured portraits of the founders. 4 volumes, 4° (347 x 280mm.), plates watermarked 1812 throughout. Uniform contemporary diced russia, finely tooled in gilt and blind, sides with broad outer key-pattern border, spines in 6 compartments, g.e., inner gilt dentelles, purple endpapers, engraved armorial bookplate of William Carlyon, Tregrehan, Cornwall, contained in 4 velvet-lined, morocco-backed buckram boxes. EXCEPTIONALLY FINE UNIFORMLY BOUND SET of early issues of Oxford and Cambridge with half-titles, lists of subscribers, lists of plates, portraits of the founders and pre-publication watermark. Abbey Scenery 280 & 80; Tooley 5 & 4. (4)
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