ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, publisher. The 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. London 1816. 4to, 344 x 288mm. (13 9/16 x 11 5/16in.), nineteenth-century green half morocco gilt, corners renewed, board edges worn, upper inner joint cracked, plates slightly offset to text, minor foxing and slight stains, old library stamp on verso of title. FIRST EDITION, 48 hand-colored aquatint plates by D. Havell, J.D. Stadler and others after W. Westall, A. Pugin and others; plate 23 in second state with masters becapped, plate 26 in third state with boys playing cricket and "School" omitted from caption, 1812-1816 watermarks. Abbey Scenery 440 (plates 23 and 26 in different states); Tooley 3.

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ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, publisher. The 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. London 1816. 4to, 344 x 288mm. (13 9/16 x 11 5/16in.), nineteenth-century green half morocco gilt, corners renewed, board edges worn, upper inner joint cracked, plates slightly offset to text, minor foxing and slight stains, old library stamp on verso of title. FIRST EDITION, 48 hand-colored aquatint plates by D. Havell, J.D. Stadler and others after W. Westall, A. Pugin and others; plate 23 in second state with masters becapped, plate 26 in third state with boys playing cricket and "School" omitted from caption, 1812-1816 watermarks. Abbey Scenery 440 (plates 23 and 26 in different states); Tooley 3.