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Ackermann, Rudolph.
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- The Microcosm of London. London: R. Ackermann, 1808-1810 [watermarks 1807-1808]
- paper
3 volumes, 4to (360 x 285mm.), half-titles, woodcut pictorial titles and engraved dedications in each volume, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Charles Pugin, modern half morocco over patterned boards, uncut, slipcases, [Abbey, Scenery 212; Tooley (1954) 7], some plates offset onto facing text
Catalogue Note
A fine uncut copy of "one of the great colour-plate books... The plates by Rowlandson and Pugin present an unrivalled picture of London in the early nineteenth century, of historic value, as many of the buildings no longer exist" (Tooley, English Books with Coloured Plates).