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ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, publisher. 1814 A History of the University of Oxford. 2 vols. With the founders' portraits.

ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, publisher. A History of the University of Oxford. 115 aquatint and line- or stipple-engraved plates, all but one hand-colored. Half-titles; subscribers' list. 2 volumes. Large 4to, 339x276 mm, modern red straight-grain morocco handsomely gilt; plates generally clean though offsetting onto adjacent leaves throughout, light offsetting onto a few plates from facing pages in Volume 1, occasional browning of text leaves, owner's inscription on front endleaf in each volume. London, 1814

  • Notes: first edition, complete with the founders'' portraits; ordinary-paper issue. First state of plates 1 and 50; second state of plates 5, 15, 39, 65, 74, 78, 84, 94. Abbey Scenery 280.
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