Catalogue of the very Select and Valuable Library of William Roscoe, Esq. Which will be sold

by Auction, by Mr. Winstanley, at his Rooms in Marble Street, Liverpool,

$1,350 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

3 p.l., 208 pp. 8vo, mid-19th-century blue cloth over boards bound for Sir Thomas Phillipps in the cheapest fashion possible joints with splits, cloth & title somewhat soiled , uncut. Liverpool: 1816. Roscoe 1753-1831 , historian, patron of the arts, abolitionist and M.P., formed a fine library of Italian literature and early printed books illustrating the rise and progress of the art of printing, and several important manuscripts. Following his

• Binding: Hardcover

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