Mar 12, 2009 - Sale 2173

Sale 2173 - Lot 1

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH. The History of Rugby School. 5 color aquatint plates. Thin folio, contemporary calf gilt, front cover loose, edges worn, top spine compartment missing, needs rebinding; plates quite clean with some offsetting, front endpaper torn, scattered marginal foxing to preliminaries and end leaves. London: Printed for and Published by R. Ackermann, 1816

Additional Details

A separate imprint from Ackermann''s History of Colleges, Public Schools, 1816 (Abbey, Scenery 438). The complete edition was under-subscribed, and it is likely that the remainder sheets were issued as separate histories (Ford, Ackermann). The set is considered the finest pictorial record of the nine most famous schools in England.