Apr 03, 2008 - Sale 2140

Sale 2140 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, publisher. The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster [etc.]. 44 hand-colored aquatints and 4 hand-colored engravings. Large 4to, 344x290 mm, modern red straight-grain morocco handsomely gilt, few light scratches on rear cover; plates generally clean though offsetting onto adjacent leaves throughout, occasional browning of text leaves, light offsetting onto a few plates from facing pages, light dampstain in outer margin of preliminaries and 2 leaves at end, owner's inscription on front endleaf in each volume. London, 1816

Additional Details

first edition; ordinary paper issue. First state of plate 23; third state of plate 26. Abbey Scenery 440.