Shelfmark
Go.1.15 - Go.1.16
Title
A history of the University of Cambridge, its colleges, halls, and public buildings. In two volumes..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: Printed for R. Ackermann, ... , by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, ... ., M.DCCC.XV. [1815]
Physical description
2 v. (xii, 296, [6] ; [4], 324, [10] p., [96] leaves (in toto) of plates) : col. ill., ports. ; 34 cm.
Note
Authorship ascribed to William Combe, in "Notes and Queries", 1869 (article by W. Papworth) and in the Dict. nat. biog., v. 11, p. 432, 434. The latter (v. 52, p. 147) also gives the work in the list of Frederic Shoberl's writing.
Note
Includes half-titles.
Note
Final leaf (v.2) lists arrangement of the plates in v. 1-2.
Note
With a list of subscribers.
Note
Plates by W. Westall, F. Mackenzie, A. Pugin and T. Uwins.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of J.G.F. Lund with motto “vultus est index animi”, undated, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Ex libris label of Clement James Mellish Adie (1876-1954), chief Warden at Eton College, on rear pastedown.
Binding
19th-century quarter-bound blue morocco and blue cloth over millboards. Covers decorated with gilt fillets separating leather and cloth. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, tools, and titling ("History of Cambridge University"; "Ackermann"; "Vol. [number]"; "1815"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's brief pencil notes on endpapers.
Subject
Subject
Added entry--name
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764 - 1834 bookseller.
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Combe, William, 1742 - 1823 attributed name.
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Shoberl, Frederic, 1775 - 1853 attributed name.
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Westall, William, 1781 - 1850 engraver.
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Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 8 - 1854 engraver.
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Pugin, Augustus, 1762 - 1832 engraver.
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Uwins, Thomas, 1782 - 1857 engraver.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Leigh, J. C. printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50916