Accession number
PML 75223
Creator
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Published
London : Printed for and published by R. Ackermann..., 1816.
Credit line
Gift of the Hon. C. Douglas Dillon, 1977.
Notes
Issued in 12 monthly parts between 1816-17.
This copy bound from parts.
W. H. Pyne was responsible for the ectins on Winchster, Eton, and Harrow.
Text is watermarked: "S S 1816" but many plates with watermark 1812 and final one, 1816.
All illustrations are colored aquatints.
Running Title : History of the public schools, etc.
Plates by W. Westall, F. Mackenzie, A. Pugin, and T. Uwins.
List of subscribers: p. [v]-vi at beginning.
Spine title : History of colleges & free schools, etc.
Text by W. Combe, with the exception of Winchester, Eton and Harrow, which are by W. H. Pyne. cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 11, p. 434; W. Papworth in Notes queries, 1869.
Library's copy without the leaf "Arrangement of Plates."
Library's copy: plate 23 in first state, plate 26 in third state.
This copy bound from parts.
W. H. Pyne was responsible for the ectins on Winchster, Eton, and Harrow.
Text is watermarked: "S S 1816" but many plates with watermark 1812 and final one, 1816.
All illustrations are colored aquatints.
Running Title : History of the public schools, etc.
Plates by W. Westall, F. Mackenzie, A. Pugin, and T. Uwins.
List of subscribers: p. [v]-vi at beginning.
Spine title : History of colleges & free schools, etc.
Text by W. Combe, with the exception of Winchester, Eton and Harrow, which are by W. H. Pyne. cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 11, p. 434; W. Papworth in Notes queries, 1869.
Library's copy without the leaf "Arrangement of Plates."
Library's copy: plate 23 in first state, plate 26 in third state.
Description
370 p. in various pagings, [48] leaves of plates : col. ill., ports. ; 34 cm
Provenance
C. Douglas Dillon.
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