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An original copy of the
three best Oxford University books ever printed All first edition all
99.8% perfect . . . . These are :- "Oxonia Illustrata sive Omnium
Celeberrimae istius Universitatis Collegiorum. Aularum Bibliothecae
Bodleianae, Scolarum Publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; nec non Urbis
Totius Scenographia" 1st ed., Oxford, 1675,with dedication leaf to
Charles II, privilage and preface leaves, index leaf at end,
double-page plan of Oxford and 39 copper-engraved views by David
Loggan, plus six extra engraved plates after Michael Burghers (1676)
etc a couple of plates with well repaired tears, a few short marginal
tears and small losses, occasional very light spotting,
minimal soiling and dampstain ( as shown to b.n.c/aeni
naesi pic ), one or two words with manuscript
crossing-through,a white bacillus in the crease of the Christ Church
triple fold. All images and plans present as per publication . Plus
various leaflets that seem to be advertising the books for sale and
singing their praises. . . typical post civil war broadsheets etc all
pasted in. . . .The cover for those who prefer binding to contents is
old contemporary calf/old sheep goat etc ie leather of some format
showing signs of age but all binding etc is firm. . . This is
bound with at front Anthony Wood's "Historia et Antiquitates
Universitatis Oxoniensis" 1st ed., Oxford, 1674, engraved additional
title, folding plan and two double-page engraved plates. This has been
bound oddly but logically when almost new if not when printed as all
the images and history of each college are bound together in sequence
not as three separate books. . . . although the majority of the Wood
book is at the front. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Info/Biog:-Michael Burghers
(1647/8–1727), engraver and draughtsman. , who assisted in
the engraving of David Loggan's Oxonia Illustrata Michael Burghers was
also. an engraver for the Press, producing the Almanac. for 1675
(though it was rejected) and for the years. 1676-1 724. He
was from Holland, who came to England and settled in Oxford in 1673.
There he worked under David Loggan and succeeded him as Engraver to the
University. Burghers engraved the first Oxford Almanack in 1676, and
continued to engrave most of them for the next 43 years. He also
illustrated books and produced architectural, botanical and portrait
engravings.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Info/Biog :-Anthony Wood (later Anthony
A Wood) lived from 1632-1695 and was an antiquary and historian. He was
graduated from Oxford in 1652 with a BA degree, and his HISTORIA ET
ANTIQUITATES UNIV. OXON. was first published in 1674, with an English
translation undertaken by John Gutch, and published in 1791-1796. Wood
was expelled from the university for libel . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Info/Biog:-
Loggan, a Dane from Dantzig who settled in Oxfordshire in the mid
1660s, was appointed engraver to the University of Oxford in 1669, and
over the following few years produced the series of forty engravings
for the ‘Illustrata’. These illustrate the Bodleian
Library, the University Schools, the newly built Sheldonian Theatre,
the University Church, and the University’s various colleges
and halls. The volume is completed by panoramic views of the city from
a distance, an excellent plan of the city in birds’ eye
perspective, a plate illustrating the various varieties of academic
dress, a plan of the University Botanic Garden and an engraved view of
Winchester College (the public school linked to New College, Oxford).
The engravings are justly famous for their combination of accuracy and
visual attractiveness, and they challenge comparison with the best
contemporary engravings of buildings in French and Italian cities. They
are also an excellent historical record of the buildings of the
University in the 1670s, portraying not just the principal courtyards
of the colleges but all the structures on each college site ; thus, the
engraving of Christ Church records both the larger buildings that stood
on the present sites of Peckwater and Canterbury Quadrangles, and also
the various residential and service buildings hidden behind.
Loggan’s engravings are also a reliable record of college
gardens, and of the seven independent halls that then existed alongside
the colleges proper.Loggan, came to England c. 1653 and in 1669 was
appointed engraver to Oxford University, All images shown in
hopefully correct order below
LOGGAN (David) Oxonia Illustrata, sive Omnium Celeberrimae istius
Universitatis Collegiorum, Aularum, Bibliothecae Bodleianae, Scholarum
Publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; ne non Urbis Totius Scenographia.
THIS IS A COMPLETE BOOK ALL ILLUSTRATIONS SHOWN PRICE
OF THE BOOK AS SHOWN £6,350 INCLUSIVE OF INSURED DELIVERY
LESS OF COURSE FOR CLLECTION. . . A SUPERB PERSONAL PENSION PLAN TO
LIVE WITH AS THE VALUE OF THE PLATES SEPARATELY IS
CONSIDERABLY MORE
LOGGAN
(David) Oxonia Illustrata, sive Omnium Celeberrimae istius
Universitatis Collegiorum, Aularum, Bibliothecae Bodleianae, Scholarum
Publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; ne non Urbis Totius Scenographia.
Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano [actually L. Lichfield]. 1675, entirely
engraved on copper, consisting of titlepage, royal privilege,
dedication to Charles II, preface, 40 plates (11 topographical,
including the fine bird's-eye view of the city, 1 costume, 28 colleges
and halls) of perspective views (all of which are double-sheet except
Christ Church, which is on three), folio, (438x310mm ) with central
fold an American lady disliked one as her copies did not have this . .
. it was a giclee' print ie compueter copy!.
Loggan
is the earliest and best collection of Oxford viewsalthough almost
contemporary to Guillelimus Williams Kip and the Almanacks. The
accurate detail implies considerable time spent on the study of the
buildings and on the preparation of the plates. The Oxford views, as
the Introduction tells us, had been 'long expected, and begun several
years before' [diu expectatum Opus, annis abhinc aliquot susceptum'].
Wood refers to the plates as early as 1665, which is the date that
Loggan lived at Nuffield in Oxfordshire, and the possible date that he
started work on the views. He mentions them again in 1669, when Loggan
was able to exhibit many of the plates as finished. Wood clearly
expected that the sheets would have been ready in 1674 to be bound with
his Historia et Antiquitates, by those that wished it. He both
disclaimed responsibility for the captions to the plates in his
introduction to the reader, and several times elsewhere referred to
them as 'the cuts belonging to my book'. This, and the fact that
Loggan's Index refers to Wood, relating the illustration to the place
where a history of the building can be found, provides clear evidence
of an intention that Wood's history and Loggan's views should appear
together. Why they didn't is unclear, because it seems that they were
ready. Fell had written, on Jan. 19th, 1674/5, that the plates were 'in
a manner quite finished'. It may be that the tensions which had arisen
between Fell and Wood over the editing of Historia et Antiquitates hold
the key to this puzzle. The plates were not printed at the Sheldonian,
but at Leonard Lichfield's house in Holywell, where it is presumed that
the rolling press was housed. (Madan.)
Biography David Loggan, (b Danzig
[now Gdansk], bapt 27 Aug 1634; d London, bur 1 Aug 1692). British
engraver, draughtsman and painter.He married in 1663 and moved two
years later to Nuffield, Oxon, to avoid the plague. He was living in
Oxford by 1669, when he was appointed 'public sculptor' to the
university. He then proceeded to draw and engrave all the Oxford
colleges in bird's-eye views for his famous folio Oxonia
illustrata , published in 1675, the year that he was made a
British citizen. The book appeared in two editions which included :-
Engraved title-page, index of plates, privilege leaf, dedication to
Charles II, preface leaf, double-page plan of Oxford and 39
copper-engraved views, 1 folding, 38 double-page. The rarer second
edition was printed, unusually, on thicker paper,. The plates in the
second edition are easily recognised by the addition of a plate number
in the bottom right-hand corner. Otherwise they are unchanged from the
first edition, and the strength of the impression is indicative of the
comparatively small number of copies printed in 1675 That year he once
again settled in London, living in Leicester Fields, where he let rooms
to aristocratic patrons, notably Sir Thomas Isham, and acted as their
agent in the acquisition of works of art. From 1676 he was involved in
preparing the folio Cantabrigia illustrata, and in
1690, the year it was published, he was made engraver to Cambridge
University.:::. . . . . . . . if on a non image friendly Pc go for a coffee as the images come down. . . sorry !
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