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ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the Schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ's Hospital. [Text by William Combe and W.H.Pyne]. London: for and by R. Ackermann, L. Harrison, printer, 1816 [watermarked 1812-1816].
4 (338 x 272mm). 2pp. list of subscribers. 48 hand-coloured plates (4 line-engraved costume plates and 44 aquatint views) by Havell, Stadler, Buck and others after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin and others. Contemporary diced russia (neatly rebacked in style).
A FINE COPY. Tooley's second issue, plate 26 in its third state with boys playing cricket in the foreground, plate 23 in first state with the masters bare-headed. Abbey Scenery 440; Tooley 3.
4 (338 x 272mm). 2pp. list of subscribers. 48 hand-coloured plates (4 line-engraved costume plates and 44 aquatint views) by Havell, Stadler, Buck and others after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin and others. Contemporary diced russia (neatly rebacked in style).
A FINE COPY. Tooley's second issue, plate 26 in its third state with boys playing cricket in the foreground, plate 23 in first state with the masters bare-headed. Abbey Scenery 440; Tooley 3.