ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, publisher. The History of the Colleges. London: Ackermann, 1816 [plates watermarked 1812]. 4to, royal blue half morocco gilt, t.e.g. by Bayntun, some old marginal dampstaining throughout, now carefully cleaned but the paper of text and plates sometimes softened and faintly discolored at outer and lower portions in the margins, some text spotted. 48 colored plates, including the 4 costume plates, the views colored aquatints, the costume plates in line and stipple, by Agar, Bluck, D. Havell, Stadler and others after Mackenzie, Pugin, Westall and others, Abbey's first state of plate 23 (the masters bareheaded) and second state of plate 26 (with washerwomen and with caption overslip). Abbey Scenery 440.