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Ackermann-History of the Uni. of Cambridge

Ackermann (Rudolph) A History of the University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings,

2 vol., first edition, half-titles, list of subscribers, uncoloured portrait of the Duke of Gloucester, and 95 plates including the 16 portraits of Founders, all hand-coloured aquatints or stipple-engravings by Stadler, Havell, Agar, Bluck, Hill and Reeve after Pugin, Westall, Mackenzie, Uwins and Pyne, offsetting, contemporary calf, gilt spines, rubbed, [Abbey Scenery 80; Tooley 4], 4to, R. Ackermann, 1815.

***Magnificent work, much scarcer than Ackermann's Oxford and, according to Prideaux, "among the finest [books] ever executed". Prideaux pp.125-126.