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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 [Text by William Combe & W.H. Payne]. |
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Printed for and Published by R. Ackermann. 1816. First Edition, large 4to, vi,[ii],56, 72, 27,[1], 32, 34, 22, 40, 34, 43,[1]pp., 48 fine coloured aquatint plates (44 being coloured aquatint views and 4 being coloured line engravings of costume), some offsetting to text (as usual) but plates are clean, last few pages slightly spotted, recent full burgundy morocco, raised bands, spine tooled in gold, a nice copy. “The same artists were employed in its decoration, the highest praise for which is that it equals, if not surpasses, that of the ‘Oxford’ and ‘Cambridge’... Here again it may be noticed that many of the aquatints are printed in two colours before being finished by hand. This and the two University volumes, published in three successive years, with the kindred nature of their subject and the splendour of their illustrations, for a magnificent trilogy.”—Hardie. Abbey, Scenery. 438; Tooley, English Books with Coloured Plates. 3; Hardie, English Coloured Books. pp. 106-7. |
