Item #409292 Catalogue of the Very Select and Valuable Library of William Roscoe, Esq. Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Winstanley... Liverpool... the 19th of August, and Thirteen following days... 1816. William ROSCOE, collection.

Catalogue of the Very Select and Valuable Library of William Roscoe, Esq. Which will be sold by auction by Mr. Winstanley... Liverpool... the 19th of August, and Thirteen following days... 1816

[London]: [J.M'Creery], [1816]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 208 pages. Without the portrait, sonnet, and four leaves of "books omitted"; with a leaf at end advertising the auction sales of Roscoe's collection of pictures and prints. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Front cover detached, loss at foot of spine, a few small holes at gutter of title-page. Item #409292

Catalogue, mostly priced in ink, of the library of the great Liverpool historian (though best known for his children's classic, 'The Butterfly's Ball', 1807), prepared under his own supervision, after the failure of his family bank. The 1813 lot catalogue is rich in early printed books and Italian literature with many incunabula from the earliest Italian presses as well as the 1459 Psalter and 1460 Catholicon. On the front endpaper, in a later 19th-century hand, is a note regarding the sale ("The books were sold for £5150") and the text of Roscoe's "Sonnet" (on parting with his books). De Ricci, pp. 93-94. (BA).

Price: $350.00