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Lot 26
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Ackermann, Rudolph.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • A History of the University of Oxford. London: R. Ackermann, 1814 [watermarks 1812]
  • paper
2 volumes, 4to (335 x 265mm.), half-titles, plain engraved portrait, 114 hand-coloured aquatint or engraved plates by Pugin, Mackenzie and others, list of subscribers at beginning of volume 1 and list of plates at end, modern dark blue morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt edges, slipcases, [Abbey, Scenery 278-280; Tooley (1954) 5], plates offset onto text (as often)

Catalogue Note

A finely bound copy by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with the series of portraits of the founders.