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The Pendarves copy of the first edition of Ackermann’s Oxford
A History of The University of Oxford, its colleges, halls, and public buildings. In two volumes.
London
for R. Ackermann, by L. Harrison and J. C. Leigh,
1814
2 volumes, quarto (345 by 282 mm). 115 hand-coloured aquatint plates, including the portraits of founders in line and stipple with aquatint backgrounds, and costume plates coloured line- and stipple-engraving, with half-titles and list of subscribers, nineteenth century diced russia, covers decorated in blind and gilt tooled borders, spine in 6 compartments separated by raised bands richly gilt, lettered in gilt in the second and fifth compartment, upper cover to volume one detached, bookplate of "E.W. Wynne Pendarves", all edges gilt.
1945
notes:
First edition of Ackermann's famous history of Oxford, complete with the academic dress and founders plates.
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bibliography:
Tooley 5; Abbey Scenery 280.
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