BOUND WITH Costume of the various orders in the University … Drawn by R. Harraden. Fifteen plates … also two plates of medals Cambridge 1822. ONE OF 100 COPIES ON LARGE PAPER EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. 4to engraved title-page pp. [vi] subscribers and contents 226 [2] list of engravings; engraved frontispiece portrait of the Duke of Gloucester engraved map and 35 engraved plates; with 30 leaves extra-illustrated with portraits and views of colleges; 4to 17 hand-coloured line and stipple engraved plates. Contemporary paneled Russia outer double key pattern border with square corner pieces enclosing an inner panel with fan-shaped corner pieces the spine in compartments decorated with filigree centrepieces and lettered in gilt possibly by Taylor & Hessey gilt edges armorial bookplate of Massey of Duntrileague; joints skilfully repaired. . The colour plate of the 'Volunteer Uniform' as listed by Abbey has been substituted with a new plate, 'The Chancellor,' depicting William Duke of Glocester, chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1811. His academic distinctions contrast with his renowned lack of intelligence: his most widely used nickname was Silly Billy. In London, Harraden practiced from 16 Little Newport Street. He specialized in topographical draughtsmanship and executed most of his designs in etching or aquatint. This was the case with the series of six extensive views of colleges which he published from his new premises in Great St Mary's Lane Cambridge in 1797. Aquatinted by various engravers, including Harraden himself, these folio plates were designated a coherent series by their ornamental title page with its heavy aquatint border bearing the words 'Views of Cambridge Drawn by Rd Harraden' in a 'stopped-out' script that was intended to evoke a monumental inscription. Indeed after he opened this print shop in Cambridge, the recurrent subject of Harraden's work was Cambridge and the university. Published in the name of Harraden & Son of Cambridge, Cantabrigia Depicta was a success. This can be assumed as his son Richard Bankes Harraden continued to exploit the market for views of Cambridge in his own Illustrations of the University of Cambridge (1830). Also, as twenty-four of the fifty-eight plates in this series of 'engravings of architectural and picturesque Views' had already been published in Cantabrigia Depicta, the younger Harraden was evidently sensitive to the continuing taste for them. Provenance This copy obviously belonged to Hugh Hamon Massey (1793-1836), the fourth baron Massey of Duntrileague. He had succeeded to his title as a minor in 1811, matriculated at Trinity College Cambridge in 1813, and received his M.A. in 1815; maybe on his coming of age in 1814, he bought or had given to him the present work. Coloured plates in order: 1. Esquire Beadle. 2. The Chancellor. 3. Vice-Chancellor. 4. Proctor. 5. Doctor of Divinity. 6. Master of Arts. 7. Doctor of Music. 8. Bachelor of Arts. 9. A Nobleman or Fellow of Kings College. 10. Nobleman. 11. Fellow Commoner of Emmanuel College. 12. Fellow Commoner of Trinity College. 13. Fellow Commoner. 14. Pensioner of Trinity College. 15. Pensioner. 16. The Duke of Grafton's Gold Prize Medal. 17. Sir William Browne's Gold Prize Medal.