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Ackermann, Rudolph, publisher A COLLECTION OF FOUR WORKS IN EIGHT VOLUMES, COMPRISING: Microcosm of London. London: T. Bensley for R. Ackermann, [1808-1810, watermarked 1807-1816], 3 volumes, wood-engraved titles, engraved dedication leaves with vignettes, half-titles, 104 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Thomas Rowlandson and Pugin, some offsetting, more heavily in vol.1 A History of the University of Oxford. London: for R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh, 1814 [watermarked 1812 and 1822], 2 volumes, engraved portrait of Lord Grenville, dedication, list of subscribers, 118 hand-coloured plates, including 8 half-page, comprising 69 aquatint views, 32 engraved portraits of the founders of the various colleges, 17 engraved costume plates, lacking half-titles, occasional marginal spotting, some offsetting A History of the University of Cambridge. London: L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh for Ackermann, 1815 [watermarked 1812-1823], 2 volumes, engraved portrait of the Duke of Gloucester, dedication, list of subscribers, 95 hand-coloured plates comprising 64 aquatint views, 16 engraved portraits of the founders of the various colleges, 15 engraved costume plates, lacking half-titles, some offsetting The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the Schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free School of Christ's Hospital. London: L. Harrison for Ackermann, 1816 [watermarked 1812-1816], list of subscribers, 48 hand-coloured plates, comprising 44 aquatint views and 4 engraved costume plates of scholars, title slightly spotted, some offsetting Together 8 volumes, 4o (335 x 273mm.), finely bound in uniform contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco gilt, covers with foliate borders in gilt and blind with Botfield arms at centre, flat spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges