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A first edition of the finest pictorial record of the nine most famous schools in England.
A first edition of the finest pictorial record of the nine most famous schools in England.
A first edition of the finest pictorial record of the nine most famous schools in England.
A first edition of the finest pictorial record of the nine most famous schools in England.

ACKERMANN, Rudolph.

The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the Schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ's Hospital.

London, R. Ackerman, 1816.

$3,745.00
$3,745.00

The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster;

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This was the fifth of Ackermann's 'sumptuously illustrated volumes of English topography'. The finest pictorial record of the nine most famous schools in England, the artists include Pugin, Nash and Westall while the engraving was carried out by such masters of aquatint as Stadler, Bluck, Havell among others. The plates are chiefly of interior views with illustrations of gowned scholars. (Adams)

First edition; large 4to (34.5 x 28 cm); 2pp. subscriber's lists, 48 hand-coloured plates (44 aquatint views by Havell, Stadler, Bluck and others after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin and others, 4 stipple and line engraved costume plates), some slight offsetting, green silk endpapers, a.e.g.; finely bound in orange morocco, doublures with green silk, boards gilt ruled with floral detail to corners, spine in six parts with raised bands, a little faded, gilt title and tooling, a very good copy.

Adams 116; Abbey Scenery 438; Tooley p6; Prideaux p126; Martin-Hardie pp106-7.

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A first edition of the finest pictorial record of the nine most famous schools in England.

The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster;

$3,745.00
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