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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio LF109 .C7 1815 v. 1-2 (v. 1-2)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Combe, William, 1742-1823.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- University of Cambridge--History.
- University of Cambridge.
- Aquatint--Specimens.
- Aquatint.
- History.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Subscription lists (Publishing) -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor)
- Roe: engraver, printer, printseller (bookplate)
- Housey, Robert Rising (bookplate)
- Salomons, David, Sir (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations (some color), plan, portraits ; 36 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : R. Ackermann, 1815.
- Notes:
- Authorship ascribed to 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 Frederick Shoberl's writing.
- With the exception of portrait facing p. [v] (v. 1), all plates are coloured.
- Plates by W. Westall, F. Mackenzie, A. Pugin and T. Uwins.
- List of subscribers: v. 1, p. [ix]-xii.
- "Arrangement of the plates": v. 1, p. [xiii]-[xiv].
- Local Notes:
- "Proposals for publishing by subscription...The History of the University of Cambridge" laid in on front flyleaf. ([4] p. ; 33 cm.)
- OCLC:
- 3229135
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