Rudolph Ackermann | A History of the University of Cambridge, 1815, 2 volumes, contemporary calf
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Rudolph Ackermann
A history of the University of Cambridge. London: R. Ackermann, 1815
LARGE PAPER COPY, 2 volumes, 4to (337 x 274 mm), list of subscribers, arrangement of plates leaf, engraved portrait, 95 hand-coloured aquatint plates, including the 16 founders’ plates, paper watermarked 1812, contemporary calf gilt, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, lacking half titles, some offestting from plates facing leaves, title-page of first volume browned, extremities rubbed
PROVENANCE:
Reginald William Macfarlane-Grieve (1887–1934), presented to him by Gavin Malcolm Macfarlane-Grieve (1893–1974), in 1923, presentation inscription on card loosely inserted in each volume
LITERATURE:
Abbey, Scenery 79