ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Cambridge. London: L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh for Ackermann, 1815 [watermarked 1812].

ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). A History of the University of Cambridge. London: L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh for Ackermann, 1815 [watermarked 1812].

First edition, complete with the Founders plates and those of the University figures. Abbey Scenery 79; Tooley 4.

2 volumes, quarto (345 x 283mm). Half-titles, engraved portrait of the Duke of Gloucester, dedication, subscribers' list, 'Arrangement of Plates' leaf present not called for in Abbey, and 95 hand-coloured plates by Buck, Stadler, Hill and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall and others, including the 16 Founders and the University figures (occasional faint scattered spotting and offsetting). Contemporary olive straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt borders, gilt spines, turn-ins and edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Christopher Turnor (armorial bookplates, Stoke Rochford Library) – Gloucester (bookplates).