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ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). Microcosm of London. London: T. Bensley for R. Ackermann, [1808-1810, pre-publication watermarks].
3 volumes, 4° (320 x 263mm). Half-title to vol.I. Wood-engraved titles, engraved dedications, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Buck, Stadler and others after Thomas Rowlandson and Pugin. (Half-title to vol.I bound in before the text, other half-titles lacking, vol. II title laid down with neatly repaired tears, slight rubbing soiling or offsetting to about 18 plates.) 19th-century red morocco gilt, covers panelled with elaborate cornerpieces, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with repeat decoration, gilt edges (very slight scuffing to extremities, slight surface damage to leather of upper cover of vol.I).
FIRST EDITION, AN EARLY ISSUE with early watermarks and seven of the first-issue pointers as listed by Abbey: 'A copy can be regarded as satisfactory if it carries seven or eight of the... plates, in first state'. Abbey Scenery 212. (3)
3 volumes, 4° (320 x 263mm). Half-title to vol.I. Wood-engraved titles, engraved dedications, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Buck, Stadler and others after Thomas Rowlandson and Pugin. (Half-title to vol.I bound in before the text, other half-titles lacking, vol. II title laid down with neatly repaired tears, slight rubbing soiling or offsetting to about 18 plates.) 19th-century red morocco gilt, covers panelled with elaborate cornerpieces, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with repeat decoration, gilt edges (very slight scuffing to extremities, slight surface damage to leather of upper cover of vol.I).
FIRST EDITION, AN EARLY ISSUE with early watermarks and seven of the first-issue pointers as listed by Abbey: 'A copy can be regarded as satisfactory if it carries seven or eight of the... plates, in first state'. Abbey Scenery 212. (3)
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