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Oxford.- Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher) A History of the University of Oxford, 2 vol., first
Oxford.- Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher) A History of the University of Oxford, 2 vol., first
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Oxford.- Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher) A History of the University of Oxford, 2 vol., first edition, list of subscribers, engraved portrait of the Chancellor Lord Grenville, 81 hand-coloured plates comprising 64 aquatint views by Buck, Stadler, Hill & others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall & others and 17 stipple-engraved plates of academic costumes, plus the 33 hand-coloured portraits of the Founders, lacking half-titles, small catalogue description pasted to front free endpaper, plates bright and clean but offset, occasional light spotting, later half red morocco, spines gilt, rubbed, [Abbey, Scenery 280; Tooley 5], 4to, 1814.

⁂ First issue of plates 1, 50 and 78, 3 of the 8 key plates described by Abbey.

Provenance: Christopher William Beaumont Pease, John Hely-Hutchinson (bookplates).
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Oxford.- Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher) A History of the University of Oxford, 2 vol., first

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