Ackermann’s Oxford.
£12.00
Publisher
Penguin Books.
Place
London
Date
1954
Synopsis
A selection of plates from rudolph ackermann's a history of the university of oxford, its colleges, \halls, and public buildings 1814 and james ingram's memorials of oxford 1837. with notes by h. m. colvin. (king penguin. 69).
Item Description
8vo. 7.5 x 5 inches. 35 + [1] pp. In pictorial stiff card boards, in matching unclipped dust wrapper, which has edge wear at head and tail of spine. The boards are similar, but otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by 16 pages of colour plates and 8 pages of text figures. Dust wrapper designed by Gordon Cullen. King Penguin edition of figures and plates selected from the works on Oxford by Ackermann (1764-1834) and Ingram (1774-1850) cited above. Edited by Howard Montagu Colvin (1919-2007), architectural historian and author of The History of the King's Works (1963-1982).
[Stock No. 28750]
