A history of the University of Oxford, : its colleges, halls, and public buildings. [...].
William Combe (1742-1823).
Category
Books
Date
1814
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3049618
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., [115] plates (114 col.) ; 4to. One of fifty copies printed on large and thick paper. Shelved and uniform with Ackermann's 'A history of the University of Cambridge' (1815). Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate large variant, signed Badeley 1930: Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Broughton Rogers, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full blue morocco; elaborate gilt panels; gilt-stamped centrepiece on upper and lower boards: arms of the University of Oxford; spines gilt, lettered direct: 'History of Oxford University / Vol. I[-II] / Ackermann / 1814'; recessed cords; five false bands; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt top edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front pastedowns: 'C.J. Sawyer Ltd. 12 Grafton St. W.'.
Makers and roles
William Combe (1742-1823)., author Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834) , publisher possibly Frederic Shoberl (1775-1853), author