ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, London, 1812, 2 vols., folio, portrait, plan, 82 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary morocco (rubbed). FIRST EDITION. With another book. (3)

ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher) & William COMBE (1742-1823).  The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, its Antiquities and Monuments. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1812. 2 volumes, folio (345 x 285mm). Half titles, engraved portrait of William Vincent, Dean of Westminster, engraved plan, 82 aquatint plates by J. Bluck, T. Sutherland and others after F. Mackenzie, A. Pugin and others, all hand-coloured except one (portrait spotted and creased, title in vol. one browned, some light spotting, staining and browning to 'Introduction', plate 28 detached, with the margins trimmed, not affecting image, some light manly marginal spotting and staining but plates generally clean, plates offset onto text). Contemporary half brown morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers (extremities heavily rubbed and scuffed, spines faded). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); Ferdinand M. [?]McVeagh (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 213, 214; not in Brunet; Hardie English Coloured Books pp.103-4 (calling for 80 aquatint plates only); Lowndes 2880; Tooley 2; Upcott II, 859-68. With a fragment of Rudolph Ackermann's The History of St Paul's School (London, 1816, folio, 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates (only), modern marbled boards). (3)