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ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Oxford. London: L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh for R. Ackermann, 1814 [watermarked 1812].
First edition, complete with the portraits of the founders; an early issue with plates watermarked 1812, and 3 (of 8) plates in the first state, as listed by Abbey. Abbey Scenery 278; Tooley 5.
2 volumes, folio (338 x 280). Half-titles, engraved portrait of Lord Grenville by H. Meyer after W. Owen, dedication, subscribers' list, 115 hand-coloured plates by Buck, Stadler, Hill and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others, printed overslips on captions of pl. 39 New College Entrance Gate and pl. 74 Hertford and Pembroke Colleges (occasional light browning and offsetting). Contemporary purple straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt borders, gilt spines, marbled endpapers and edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Christopher Turnor (armorial bookplates, Stoke Rochford Library) – Gloucester (bookplates).
First edition, complete with the portraits of the founders; an early issue with plates watermarked 1812, and 3 (of 8) plates in the first state, as listed by Abbey. Abbey Scenery 278; Tooley 5.
2 volumes, folio (338 x 280). Half-titles, engraved portrait of Lord Grenville by H. Meyer after W. Owen, dedication, subscribers' list, 115 hand-coloured plates by Buck, Stadler, Hill and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others, printed overslips on captions of pl. 39 New College Entrance Gate and pl. 74 Hertford and Pembroke Colleges (occasional light browning and offsetting). Contemporary purple straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt borders, gilt spines, marbled endpapers and edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Christopher Turnor (armorial bookplates, Stoke Rochford Library) – Gloucester (bookplates).
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