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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: L. Harrison for Ackermann, 1816.
4° (340 x 275mm). 48 hand-coloured plates, including 44 aquatint views by Havell, Stadler, Bluck and others after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin and others, 4 stipple and line engraved costume plates. (First nine leaves of text to 'Christ's Hospital' spotted, some offsetting of plates onto text.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, lavishly tooled in gilt and blind, g.e. (hinges slightly split). Provenance: Frederick William Webb (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, second issue. Abbey Scenery 440; Tolley 3.
4° (340 x 275mm). 48 hand-coloured plates, including 44 aquatint views by Havell, Stadler, Bluck and others after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin and others, 4 stipple and line engraved costume plates. (First nine leaves of text to 'Christ's Hospital' spotted, some offsetting of plates onto text.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, lavishly tooled in gilt and blind, g.e. (hinges slightly split). Provenance: Frederick William Webb (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, second issue. Abbey Scenery 440; Tolley 3.