<font color=#CC0000><strong>HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Large Paper copy)</strong></font>

2 volumes, I. 296 + 6 pages index. II. 324 + 6 pages index and 2 pages Arrangements of the Plates, uncoloured stipple engraved portrait of His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester (on India paper) facing the dedication page in volume I, 95 hand coloured plates (with the 16 plates of Founders) - mostly aquatints but others are line and stipple engravings, with the half title pages and list of subscribers, contemporary full crimson straight-grained morocco, spines decorated gilt in panels, sides ruled in gilt and decorated in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contained in red cloth slip case with leather-trimmed edges and fleece linings, from the Battle Abbey library with a shelf mark 903/2 and a bookplate (a note in pencil describes this as the bookplate of the Duchess of Cleveland), 6 centimetre repair at the base of the upper joint of volume II, the leather and slip cases have been expertly refurbished, the plates and text are crisp and bright, a fine set of the Large Paper edition.

The page size measures 400 x 310 mm (15.75 x 12.25 inches) and the binding size 412 x 325 mm (16.25 x 12.5 inches).

Abbey: Scenery, 79, pages 55 - 57, Tooley, English Books With Coloured Plates, no.4, pages 9 - 14.