OXFORD [ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH)] A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, 2 vol.
OXFORD
[ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH)] A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, 2 vol., 115 plates, comprising engraved portrait, 64 hand-coloured aquatint views, 33 hand-coloured aquatint portraits of founders, and 17 uncoloured plates of University costume, with half-titles and list of subscribers, some offsetting to plates and text (as often), contemporary brown diced russia, sides with double gilt fillet, blind Greek key pattern and gilt palmette roll borders, a.e.g., rebacked and repaired preserving original gilt panelled backstrips, WIDE MARGINS [Abbey, Scenery 278-280; Tooley 5; Prideaux pp. 125/26], 4to, R. Ackermann, 1814
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