ACKERMANN RUDOLPH; publisher The Microcosm of London

Sale 2232 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 5,760

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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500

ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH; publisher. The Microcosm of London. 3 volumes. Engraved title-pages and 104 hand-colored aquatint plates by Buck, Stadler, and others after Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin. Folio, 19th century straight-grain red morocco gilt, edges rubbed, scattered areas of scuffing and discoloration but could be refurbished; half-title in Volume 2 only, foxing to preliminaries, usual offsetting to text, stain to left margin of plate 91, plates generally clean and bright; bookplates. Appears to be the first state of the text with "Contents," Custom House," and comma after Bensley in the imprint in Volume 1, plates in first and second states except third state of plate 91. Text and plates watermarked 1806, 1807, and 1808. London, 1808-10

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first edition, early issue of "one of the great colour-plate books . . . The plates by Rowlandson and Pugin present an unrivaled picture of London in early 19th century, of historic value, as many of the buildings no longer exist" --Tooley 7. "Original impressions of these splendid plates have a luminous quality entirely absent from later printings"--Abbey, Scenery, 212.