Author: James Ingram
Title: Memorials of Oxford
Description: London , John Henry Parker, 1837. Leather. 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 joint to volume I has failed with the board detached. Prior owner's inscription to the recto of front endpaper to volume I. Internally, all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned with tidemarks to plates of volume I at the top edge. Scattered spotting throughout all volumes, heavier to plates. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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