Author: William Loring Andrews
Title: A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England. Enraved by Wm. Burgis in 1726
Description: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897 . First edition. Cloth. A Limited Edition publication concerning Harvard University in the early eighteenth century, this work is illustrated throughout with charming full plate engravings. A late nineteenth century reprint of a 1726 publication about Massachusetts' Harvard University from Engraver William Burgis, this is a Limited Edition, and one of 115 copies printed on handmade paper.The first edition this, this edition is the work of prominent collector of rare books and manuscripts William Loring Andrews, who 1878 became a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and served as its first librarian, and here combines Burgis' publication with his own descriptive text, and includes a correspondence between Harvard benefactor Thomas Hollis and former Harvard President E. Holyoke.Illustrated with folding frontispiece and five further plates. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Edge wear to back strip head and tail, with light discolouration to back strip cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: William Burgis. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: harvard boston university boston William Burgis
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Title: A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England. Enraved by Wm. Burgis in 1726
Description: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897 . First edition. Cloth. A Limited Edition publication concerning Harvard University in the early eighteenth century, this work is illustrated throughout with charming full plate engravings. A late nineteenth century reprint of a 1726 publication about Massachusetts' Harvard University from Engraver William Burgis, this is a Limited Edition, and one of 115 copies printed on handmade paper.The first edition this, this edition is the work of prominent collector of rare books and manuscripts William Loring Andrews, who 1878 became a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and served as its first librarian, and here combines Burgis' publication with his own descriptive text, and includes a correspondence between Harvard benefactor Thomas Hollis and former Harvard President E. Holyoke.Illustrated with folding frontispiece and five further plates. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Edge wear to back strip head and tail, with light discolouration to back strip cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: William Burgis. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: harvard boston university boston William Burgis
Price: GBP 195.00 = appr. US$ 278.46 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 802F44
- Book number: 802F44
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