Apr 03, 2008 - Sale 2140

Sale 2140 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, publisher. A History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments. 80 hand-colored aquatint plates; hand-colored line-engraved plate; uncolored engraved portrait; engraved plan. Half-titles. 2 volumes. Large 4to, 326x263 mm, modern red straight-grain morocco handsomely gilt; plates generally clean though offsetting onto adjacent leaves throughout, occasional browning of text leaves, owner's inscription on front endleaf in each volume. London, 1812

Additional Details

first edition. Second state of Volume 2 frontispiece ("Aylmer de Valance"), signed "A. Pugin" instead of "F. Mackenzie." Abbey Scenery 213.