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ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834). A History of the University of Oxford. Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1814.
2 volumes, 4º (345 x 277mm). Engraved portrait of Lord Grenville by H. Meyer after W. Owen, 81 hand-coloured plates, comprising 64 aquatint views by Bluck, Stadler, Hill and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others; 17 hand-coloured stipple- and line-engraved costume plates and 6-page subscribers' list. (Lacking half-titles, offsetting from plates.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, plate 50 in first state, plate nos. 1, 15, 39, 74, 78, 84 and 94 in second state. This copy without the 32 hand-coloured stipple- and line-engraved portraits of the founders of the various colleges, which Tooley notes were 'not issued till a later date ... their inclusion is optional, and copies are complete, without [them]' ( Tooley). Abbey Scenery 280; Tooley 5.
2 volumes, 4º (345 x 277mm). Engraved portrait of Lord Grenville by H. Meyer after W. Owen, 81 hand-coloured plates, comprising 64 aquatint views by Bluck, Stadler, Hill and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others; 17 hand-coloured stipple- and line-engraved costume plates and 6-page subscribers' list. (Lacking half-titles, offsetting from plates.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, plate 50 in first state, plate nos. 1, 15, 39, 74, 78, 84 and 94 in second state. This copy without the 32 hand-coloured stipple- and line-engraved portraits of the founders of the various colleges, which Tooley notes were 'not issued till a later date ... their inclusion is optional, and copies are complete, without [them]' ( Tooley). Abbey Scenery 280; Tooley 5.
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