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Various authors - Three historical publications about the city of Oxford - 1915-1954
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Various authors - Three historical publications about the city of Oxford - 1915-1954

Lot contains: 1. Fred Richards - Oxford: A Sketchbook by Fred Richards - London, A. & C. Black Ltd., 1915 - 1st edition - 50p. - Hardcover: bound, cardboard binding - 15.70x22.50cm - Fair/good copy: binding intact, spine cover missing, ex-libris D. A. Fiske on the front endpaper, cover with some foxing spots and dust traces. * Frederick Charles Richards (1878–1932) was a Welsh painter, etcher and art educationalist. (Source: University College of Wales at Aberystwyth) 2. Christopher Hobhouse - Oxford: As it was And as it is to-day - London, B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1948 - 4th edition (1st edition appeared in 1939, one year before Hobhouse's death at the age of 40) - X+2 frontispieces+120p .+138 photos hors texte - Hardcover: linen binding with (folder) illustrated endpapers - 14.20x21.60cm - Very good copy: minimal signs of wear on the cover, ex-libris D. A. Fiske on the front endpaper. * Christopher Bernard Hobhouse (1910-1940) was an English barrister and writer. (Source: Wikidata) 3. H. M. Colvin - Ackermann's Oxford: A selection of plates from Rudolph Ackermann's "A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings" [1814] and James Ingram's "Memorials of Oxford" [1837] - Harmondsworth, Penguin Books Ltd., 1954 - 1st edition - 36p.+16p. color illustrations - Hardcover: bound, illustrated, cardboard binding, with identical, original dust jacket - 12.50x18.50cm - Good copy: endpapers with slight age discolouration, dust jacket with some signs of wear. * Sir Howard Montagu Colvin (1919–2007) was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship in his field: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 and The History of the King's Works. (Source: Wikipedia) * Rudolph Ackermann (1764–1834) was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. (Source: Wikipedia) * James Ingram (1774–1850) was an English academic at the University of Oxford, who was Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon from 1803 to 1808 and President of Trinity College, Oxford, from 1824 until his death. (Source: Wikipedia) Shipping: well packaged/insured.

No. 82295575

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Various authors - Three historical publications about the city of Oxford - 1915-1954

Various authors - Three historical publications about the city of Oxford - 1915-1954

Lot contains:

1.
Fred Richards - Oxford: A Sketchbook by Fred Richards - London, A. & C. Black Ltd., 1915 - 1st edition - 50p. - Hardcover: bound, cardboard binding - 15.70x22.50cm - Fair/good copy: binding intact, spine cover missing, ex-libris D. A. Fiske on the front endpaper, cover with some foxing spots and dust traces.
* Frederick Charles Richards (1878–1932) was a Welsh painter, etcher and art educationalist. (Source: University College of Wales at Aberystwyth)
2.
Christopher Hobhouse - Oxford: As it was And as it is to-day - London, B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1948 - 4th edition (1st edition appeared in 1939, one year before Hobhouse's death at the age of 40) - X+2 frontispieces+120p .+138 photos hors texte - Hardcover: linen binding with (folder) illustrated endpapers - 14.20x21.60cm - Very good copy: minimal signs of wear on the cover, ex-libris D. A. Fiske on the front endpaper.
* Christopher Bernard Hobhouse (1910-1940) was an English barrister and writer. (Source: Wikidata)
3.
H. M. Colvin - Ackermann's Oxford: A selection of plates from Rudolph Ackermann's "A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings" [1814] and James Ingram's "Memorials of Oxford" [1837] - Harmondsworth, Penguin Books Ltd., 1954 - 1st edition - 36p.+16p. color illustrations - Hardcover: bound, illustrated, cardboard binding, with identical, original dust jacket - 12.50x18.50cm - Good copy: endpapers with slight age discolouration, dust jacket with some signs of wear.
* Sir Howard Montagu Colvin (1919–2007) was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship in his field: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 and The History of the King's Works. (Source: Wikipedia)
* Rudolph Ackermann (1764–1834) was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. (Source: Wikipedia)
* James Ingram (1774–1850) was an English academic at the University of Oxford, who was Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon from 1803 to 1808 and President of Trinity College, Oxford, from 1824 until his death. (Source: Wikipedia)

Shipping: well packaged/insured.

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