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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 [watermarked 1812-1816].
2 volumes, 4º (360 x 290 mm). Half-titles, 6pp. subscribers’ list, 82 engraved plates, viz one uncoloured portrait of Lord Grenville by H. Meyer after W. Owen, 64 hand-coloured aquatint views by Bluck, Stadler, Hill and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others, and 17 hand-coloured stipple- and line-engraved costume plates. (Occasional spotting, clean marginal tear to C3 in vol. 1.) Contemporary straight-grained red half morocco, gilt title and floral decoration on spine (rubbed, spine of vol. 2 scuffed). Provenance: Robert B. More (signature in vol. 1) – Jasper More (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, first issue without the 33 portraits of the founders of the colleges, published in April 1815. Plate 34 in first state. The text of this monumental account of the University of Oxford is variably ascribed to William Combe (1742-1823) and Frederic Shoberl (1775-1853). A BRIGHTLY COLOURED UNCUT COPY IN CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO. Abbey Scenery 280; Tooley 5.
2 volumes, 4º (360 x 290 mm). Half-titles, 6pp. subscribers’ list, 82 engraved plates, viz one uncoloured portrait of Lord Grenville by H. Meyer after W. Owen, 64 hand-coloured aquatint views by Bluck, Stadler, Hill and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others, and 17 hand-coloured stipple- and line-engraved costume plates. (Occasional spotting, clean marginal tear to C3 in vol. 1.) Contemporary straight-grained red half morocco, gilt title and floral decoration on spine (rubbed, spine of vol. 2 scuffed). Provenance: Robert B. More (signature in vol. 1) – Jasper More (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, first issue without the 33 portraits of the founders of the colleges, published in April 1815. Plate 34 in first state. The text of this monumental account of the University of Oxford is variably ascribed to William Combe (1742-1823) and Frederic Shoberl (1775-1853). A BRIGHTLY COLOURED UNCUT COPY IN CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO. Abbey Scenery 280; Tooley 5.
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