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Lot 81

ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH)
A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, R. Ackermann, 1814

19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH)

A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait of Lord Grenville, 64 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall, Nash, and others, 17 stipple-engraved costume plates (watermarked 1812-1816), without the "Founders" plates and half-titles, offsetting from plates to text, contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt, wide blind and gilt roll-tool borders on sides, "Cathedral" ornament decoration on spines, g.e., joints neatly repaired [Abbey Scenery 280; Tooley 5], large 4to (340 x 280mm.), R. Ackermann, 1814

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Provenance: Robert Hyde Greg (1795-1875), bookplate.

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