ACKERMANN, Rudolph.
The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster;
with the Charter-House, the Schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ's Hospital.
Stock Code
103312
London, R. Ackerman, 1816
£2,750
Description
First edition; large 4to (34.5 x 28 cm); 2pp. subscriber's lists, 48 hand-coloured plates (44 aquatint views by Havell, Stadler, Bluck and others after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin and others, 4 stipple and line engraved costume plates), some slight offsetting, green silk endpapers, a.e.g.; finely bound in orange morocco, doublures with green silk, boards gilt ruled with floral detail to corners, spine in six parts with raised bands, a little faded, gilt title and tooling, an excellent copy.
Bibliography
Adams 116; Abbey Scenery 438; Tooley p6; Prideaux p126; Martin-Hardie pp106-7.
Stock ID:103312
