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(ACKERMANN, Rudolph)
A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings; [together with:] A History of the University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings.
Publisher: London, printed for R. Ackermann, by L. Harrison and J. C. Leigh, 1814 & 1815
Stock code: 21562
Price: £12,500
‘These two books are among the finest ever executed. A. Pugin, F. Nash, F. Mackenzie and W. Westall were associated in the drawings, which are worthy even of the splendid architectural monuments they commemorate, while the engraving was carried out by such masters of aquatint as J. Bluck, J.C. Stadler, F.C. Lewis, D. Havell, and others of like reputation. The result was the production of plates of unequalled merit in their particular line’ (Prideaux, pp. 125-126).
[Oxford] 2 volumes, large quarto (13 1/4 x 10 13/16 inches; 336 x 275 mm.), pp. xiv + [4] + xxv + [1] blank + 275 + [1] blank + [6] index; [4] + 262 + [6] index. Engraved portrait of Lord Grenville and 114 hand-colored plates (sixty-four aquatint views by Bluck, Stadler, Hill, and others, after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall, and others, and seventeen line and stipple plates by Agar after Unwins of university figures in academic costume). Complete with the series of thirty-three hand-colored engraved portraits of the founders of the university. Early issue, with plates 1 and 50 in Abbey’s first state and plates 15, 39, 74, 78, 84, and 94 in Abbey’s second state. List of plates in Vol. I is first state, not including the portraits of the founders; additional list of plates in Vol. II is second state, with all plates listed in the correct order. [Cambridge] 2 volumes, large quarto (13 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches; 343 x 288 mm.), pp. viii + [2] list of plates + [ix]-xii + 296 + [6] index; [4] + 324 + [8] index. Engraved portrait of the Duke of Gloucester and 79 hand-colored plates (64 aquatint views and 15 engravings of university figures in academic costume) by Stadler, Havell, Agar, Bluck, Hill, and Reeve after Pugin, Westall, Mackenzie, Uwins, and Pyne. Complete with the series of 16 hand-colored engraved portraits of the Founders. Plates watermarked 1812-1836. Uniformly bound in contemporary red straight-grain morocco. Covers elaborately panelled in gilt and blind, spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, board edges and turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt, all edges gilt. From the library of Abel E. Berland, with his book plate on front pastedown of each volume. A fine and beautiful set.
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