Memorials of Oxford - Volume 2 by Ingram James - 2009-05-20

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Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1837. First edition. Leather bound. Very good. 3 vols. with various paginations. 22 cm. 99 steel-engraved plates by John Le Keux from drawings by architectural draughtsman Frederick Mackenzie. Over 200 vignette woodcuts by Orlando Jewitt from drawings by W. A. De La Motte. One pull-out plan of the city in vol. 3. Burgundy half leather with marbled boards and gold impressing on spines. All edges gilt. Some edge wear with a small dent in bottom of back board on vol. 1. Corners bumped. Vol. 1 front board separating from spine. Repairs to spine ends. A little spotting within. James Ingram (1774-1850) was an Oxford academic who taught Anglo-Saxon from 1803 to 1808 and served as President of Trinity College from 1824 until his death. He found time between 1833 and 1837 to research this work on Oxford's monuments. One of his contributing artists, William Delmotte, was born in England of a French refugee family and rose to become one of the leading landscape painters of his time.

Oxford/London: John Henry Parker; H. Slatter, and W. Graham/Charles Tilt, 1837. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spines. Top edges gilt. Corners bumped w/ wear to extremities. Spines sunned. Previous owner's bookplate in volumes 1 and 2. Light foxing throughout. Illust. w/ many engravings including 101 full-page steel engraved plates w/ tissue guards, which includes a frontispiece in each of the 3 volumes, by John Le Keux from drawings by F. MacKenzie. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by John Le Keux/F. MacKenzie. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London : John Henry Parker, 1837. Leather. Good. 11" by 8.5". None. The complete three volumes of James Ingram's Memorials of Oxford. An historical work on the University of Oxford, and Oxford itself. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of vignettes and plates. Thirty-Two plates to volume I, Seventeen plates to volume II and thirty four plates to volume III. Collated, complete. James Ingram was an English academic at the University of Oxford. He was once the Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon and the President of Trinity College. In half calf bindings with marbled boards. Preserved in glassine wraps. Externally, rubbing to the spine, joints and extremities. Tiny losses to the spine labels of all volumes. Front joint to volume II is tender with cords showing with the hinge slightly strained but firm. Rear joint is starting but firm with the hinge slightly strained but firm. Front joint to volume III is starting but firm with the hinge slightly strained but firm. Front hinge and… Read More