Author: ACKERMANN, Rudolph
Title: History of the University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, A.
Description: London: Printed for R. Ackermann, by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1815. One of Fifty Large-Paper Copies on Thick Paper Complete, with Earliest Issue Plates "Plates of Unequalled Merit" ACKERMANN, R[udolph]. A History of the University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1815. First edition, Earliest issue, One of fifty Large-Paper copies on Thick paper. Two large atlas quarto volumes (16 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches; 425 x 336 mm - the same size as Abbey's copy). viii, [2, list of plates], [ix]-xii, 296, [6, index]; [4], 324, [8, index] pp. Engraved portrait of the Duke of Gloucester mounted on India-paper, and seventy-nine hand-colored plates (sixty-four aquatint views and fifteen engravings of university figures in academic costume) by Stadler, Havell, Agar, Bluck, Hill, and Reeve after Pugin, Westall, Mackenzie, Uwins, and Pyne. Complete with the series of sixteen hand-colored engraved portraits of the Founders. Plates and text watermarked "J. Whatman 1811", the earliest issue we have yet handled. Small light marginal waterstain (2 x 3 inches) on lower right-hand corner of Duke of Gloucester portrait; some very light scattered marginal foxing to a few leaves - but the cleanest example we have ever seen. Publisher's original drab boards (17 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches; 445 x 352 mm.) original printed paper spine labels with "Price, in Boards, £18. / On large Paper, £30." Expertly rebacked with the original spines and printed paper labels laid down. Some wear to corners and extremities of boards as would be expected. With the armorial bookplate of James Devereux Hustler "Aut nunquam tentes aut perfice" (All or nothing) on front paste-down of each volume and E.L.H. Jones ink ownership inscription recording the gift from his mother in 1903. Housed in two half mottled brown calf over marbled boards clamshell cases (19 x 15 inches; 482 x 381 mm.), spines with five raised bands, each with two red morocco labels lettered in gilt. A stunning example of this very important and highly desirable set, rarely found complete in large-paper format with the earliest issue prints. I sold this actual copy to the late Colin & Charlotte Franklin (for their personal collection) sometime between 1978 and 1980). It is only the second Large-Paper example that I have seen in over fifty-five years - and the only one in the original boards (DJB). "Of the thousand copies issued in [twenty] monthly parts, beginning in 1813, the price of the first five hundred was 12s. 6d. and of the second 16s. a part.. The volumes in their final form were priced at £16 [actually £18] in Elephant and £27 [actually £30] in atlas quarto [as this copy].. These two books [incl. History of Oxford] are among the finest ever executed.. The result was the production of plates of unequalled merit.. Some of the original drawings can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum.." (Prideaux, pp. 125/126). From the original printed paper spine labels we are able to ascertain the correct prices as being £18 & £30 as compared to Prideaux's £16 & £27. "Fine copies with brilliant early impressions of the plates, free from "foxmarks" and "offset," are rarities, especially if on large paper with early watermark." (Tooley, p.14). "Coloured aquatints, brilliant impressions on un-foxed paper; the series of sixteen Founders.. and the University figures.. are line and stipple, coloured.." (Abbey, p. 57). "The fine aquatints, with their somewhat old-world flavour, are well suited to reproduce the spirit and to recall the antique associations of the old quads and courts.. A. Pugin, F. Nash, F. Mackenzie and W. Westall were associated in the drawings, which are worthy even of the splendid architectural monuments they commemorate, while the engraving was carried out by such masters of aquatint as J. Bluck, J.C. Stadler, F.C. Lewis, D. Havell, and others of like reputation. The result was the production of plates of unequalled merit in their particular line" (Prideaux, pp. 125-126). The text chronicles the development of the university up to 1814, with special emphasis on the founding and development of individual colleges, halls, and public buildings. Attention is also given to important historical figures and to the hierarchical arrangements of the colleges. However, the histories are more remarkable for their illustrations, which number nearly 200. Ackermann employed well-regarded artists of the period to execute the celebrated illustrations. Among the contributing artists were William Westall, who had served as an official artist on a Royal Navy expedition to Australia and was renowned for his landscapes, and Auguste Charles Pugin, who was known for his architectural renderings, particularly his depictions of Gothic architecture. Pugin, the largest contributing artist, produced twenty-two drawings, for which he was paid £14.3.6d apiece. James Devereux Hustler (1784-1849) was an English cleric and academic. He was a mathematician, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819. Hustler matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1801, moving to Trinity College in 1802. He was third Wrangler in 1806, after Frederick Pollock and Henry Walter, graduating B.A. At the University of Cambridge in England. A Wrangler is a student who gains first-class honors in the final year of the university's degree in mathematics. He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1807. In 1809 Hustler graduated M.A. and he graduated B.D. in 1816. Abbey, Scenery, 79. Prideaux, pp. 125-126, 332. Tooley 4. .
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Title: History of the University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, A.
Description: London: Printed for R. Ackermann, by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1815. One of Fifty Large-Paper Copies on Thick Paper Complete, with Earliest Issue Plates "Plates of Unequalled Merit" ACKERMANN, R[udolph]. A History of the University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1815. First edition, Earliest issue, One of fifty Large-Paper copies on Thick paper. Two large atlas quarto volumes (16 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches; 425 x 336 mm - the same size as Abbey's copy). viii, [2, list of plates], [ix]-xii, 296, [6, index]; [4], 324, [8, index] pp. Engraved portrait of the Duke of Gloucester mounted on India-paper, and seventy-nine hand-colored plates (sixty-four aquatint views and fifteen engravings of university figures in academic costume) by Stadler, Havell, Agar, Bluck, Hill, and Reeve after Pugin, Westall, Mackenzie, Uwins, and Pyne. Complete with the series of sixteen hand-colored engraved portraits of the Founders. Plates and text watermarked "J. Whatman 1811", the earliest issue we have yet handled. Small light marginal waterstain (2 x 3 inches) on lower right-hand corner of Duke of Gloucester portrait; some very light scattered marginal foxing to a few leaves - but the cleanest example we have ever seen. Publisher's original drab boards (17 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches; 445 x 352 mm.) original printed paper spine labels with "Price, in Boards, £18. / On large Paper, £30." Expertly rebacked with the original spines and printed paper labels laid down. Some wear to corners and extremities of boards as would be expected. With the armorial bookplate of James Devereux Hustler "Aut nunquam tentes aut perfice" (All or nothing) on front paste-down of each volume and E.L.H. Jones ink ownership inscription recording the gift from his mother in 1903. Housed in two half mottled brown calf over marbled boards clamshell cases (19 x 15 inches; 482 x 381 mm.), spines with five raised bands, each with two red morocco labels lettered in gilt. A stunning example of this very important and highly desirable set, rarely found complete in large-paper format with the earliest issue prints. I sold this actual copy to the late Colin & Charlotte Franklin (for their personal collection) sometime between 1978 and 1980). It is only the second Large-Paper example that I have seen in over fifty-five years - and the only one in the original boards (DJB). "Of the thousand copies issued in [twenty] monthly parts, beginning in 1813, the price of the first five hundred was 12s. 6d. and of the second 16s. a part.. The volumes in their final form were priced at £16 [actually £18] in Elephant and £27 [actually £30] in atlas quarto [as this copy].. These two books [incl. History of Oxford] are among the finest ever executed.. The result was the production of plates of unequalled merit.. Some of the original drawings can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum.." (Prideaux, pp. 125/126). From the original printed paper spine labels we are able to ascertain the correct prices as being £18 & £30 as compared to Prideaux's £16 & £27. "Fine copies with brilliant early impressions of the plates, free from "foxmarks" and "offset," are rarities, especially if on large paper with early watermark." (Tooley, p.14). "Coloured aquatints, brilliant impressions on un-foxed paper; the series of sixteen Founders.. and the University figures.. are line and stipple, coloured.." (Abbey, p. 57). "The fine aquatints, with their somewhat old-world flavour, are well suited to reproduce the spirit and to recall the antique associations of the old quads and courts.. A. Pugin, F. Nash, F. Mackenzie and W. Westall were associated in the drawings, which are worthy even of the splendid architectural monuments they commemorate, while the engraving was carried out by such masters of aquatint as J. Bluck, J.C. Stadler, F.C. Lewis, D. Havell, and others of like reputation. The result was the production of plates of unequalled merit in their particular line" (Prideaux, pp. 125-126). The text chronicles the development of the university up to 1814, with special emphasis on the founding and development of individual colleges, halls, and public buildings. Attention is also given to important historical figures and to the hierarchical arrangements of the colleges. However, the histories are more remarkable for their illustrations, which number nearly 200. Ackermann employed well-regarded artists of the period to execute the celebrated illustrations. Among the contributing artists were William Westall, who had served as an official artist on a Royal Navy expedition to Australia and was renowned for his landscapes, and Auguste Charles Pugin, who was known for his architectural renderings, particularly his depictions of Gothic architecture. Pugin, the largest contributing artist, produced twenty-two drawings, for which he was paid £14.3.6d apiece. James Devereux Hustler (1784-1849) was an English cleric and academic. He was a mathematician, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819. Hustler matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1801, moving to Trinity College in 1802. He was third Wrangler in 1806, after Frederick Pollock and Henry Walter, graduating B.A. At the University of Cambridge in England. A Wrangler is a student who gains first-class honors in the final year of the university's degree in mathematics. He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1807. In 1809 Hustler graduated M.A. and he graduated B.D. in 1816. Abbey, Scenery, 79. Prideaux, pp. 125-126, 332. Tooley 4. .
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