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A History of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings
de ACKERMANN, R. (Publisher)
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1814.. First edition, two volumes, 4to. 115 plates - a portrait of Lord Grenville, 64 hand coloured aquatints and 17 hand coloured engravings of the various gowns plus the 33 Founders plates, all in excellent condition. Frontispiece and one further plate plus the text in volume I, with the bulk of the plates and the plate list bound in volume II. Handsomely bound in 20th century brown crushed half morocco, t.e.g., faint rubbing to the spines otherwise a handsome set. A well preserved collection of perhaps the most beautiful illustrations printed of the city; Ackermann utilising some of the finest artists of the day - men such as Pugin, Westall and Nash - to make the drawings. Abbey, Scenery, 278-80. Tooley 5. Of the points noted by the above two bibliographies, four plates are in the earlier state. The plate list is in its second state, including the Founders' plates.
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- Bow Windows Bookshop
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- 42305
- Título
- A History of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings
- Autor
- ACKERMANN, R. (Publisher)
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- 1
- Editorial
- London: Printed for R. Ackermann
- Fecha de publicación
- 1814.
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
