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ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Oxford. London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1814.
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ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Oxford. London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1814.
2 volumes, 4° (340 x 282mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait of Lord Grenville by H. Meyer after W. Owen, printed list of subscribers, 85 hand-coloured plates on 82 sheets of aquatint views by Bluck, Stadler, Hill and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others, including 17 stipple- and line-engraved costume plates depicting academic dress. (Occasional light browing, spotting or offsetting.) Blue morocco panelled in gilt, gilt spine, marbled endleaves, gilt turn-ins, g.e.
Plates 1 and 50 are in the first state. Abbey Scenery 280; Tooley 5. (2)
2 volumes, 4° (340 x 282mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait of Lord Grenville by H. Meyer after W. Owen, printed list of subscribers, 85 hand-coloured plates on 82 sheets of aquatint views by Bluck, Stadler, Hill and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others, including 17 stipple- and line-engraved costume plates depicting academic dress. (Occasional light browing, spotting or offsetting.) Blue morocco panelled in gilt, gilt spine, marbled endleaves, gilt turn-ins, g.e.
Plates 1 and 50 are in the first state. Abbey Scenery 280; Tooley 5. (2)