Shelfmark
Fn.2.05 - Fn.2.08
Author
Title
The life and pontificate of Leo the Tenth. : In four volumes. / By William Roscoe. Vol. I.[-IV.].
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Publication, distribution, etc.
Liverpool: : Printed by J. McCreery; for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, London., 1805..
Physical description
4 v. : ill., ports. ; 31 cm. (4°)
Note
Wood-engraved vignettes ("designed by Mr. [John] Thurston, and engraved by Mr. [Henry] Hole" - vol. 4, M2r) throughout. Etched portrait frontispiece in each volume.
Note
With an advertisement for John McCreery on the final leaf.
Note
Each volume with a preliminary half-title page, reading: "Leo the Tenth.".
Note
"Dissertation on the character of Lucretia Borgia" (v. 1) and "Francisci Arsilli Senogalliensis De poetis urbanis ad Paulum Jovium libellus" (v. 3) are separately paginated, as are the appendices in each volume.
Note
Pagination: Vol. 1: [4], xxxvii, [3], 336, 24, 96 p., [1] leaf of plates -- Vol. 2: [4], 333, [3], 144 p., [1] leaf of plates --Vol. 3: [4], 381, [1], 22, [2], 120 p., [1] leaf of plates -- Vol. 4: [4], 346, 87, [3], xxix, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates.
Citation/references note
NSTC I, R1645
Provenance
Bookplate: Presented by Lord Rosebery.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Archibald Philip Earl of Rosebery.
Provenance
Pasted-in excerpt of sale catalogue and ms. note: Beckford sale 1883, lot 1490 with Mr Beckford's notes. The portion of William Beckford's library left to his younger daughter, the Duchess of Hamilton, was removed after his death in 1844 to Hamilton Palace, but kept apart from the Hamilton collections, and sold in 4 sales in 1882-1883.
Binding
19th century straight-grained blue-black morocco half binding; tooled in gilt and blind with armorial stamps of William Beckford and/or the Dukes of Hamilton (heron's head erased holding in its beak a fish; of a ducal coronet an oak tree traversed with a frame saw; cross flory; cinquefoil ermine); brown paper boards; top edge of text block gilt, the rest untrimmed.
Binding
Binding attributed to C. Lewis in excerpt of Beckford sale catalogue.
Copy-specific note
With 8 pages of Beckford's ms. notes in pencil on the endleaves.
Subject
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Leo, 1475 - 1521 X, Pope,
Subject
Hamilton Palace (Hamilton, Scotland) former owner.
Subject
Papacy History 1447-1565.
Subject
Popes Biography.
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Davies, William, ? - 1820 publisher.
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Cadell, Thomas, 1773 - 1836 publisher.
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McCreery, John, 1768 - 1832 printer.
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Hole, Henry, ? - 1820 wood-engraver.
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Thurston, John, 1774 - 1822 artist.
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Arsilli, Francesco, approximately 1470 - 1540 De poetis urbanis.
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Leo, 1475 - 1521 X, Pope,
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Beckford, William, 1760 - 1844 former owner.
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Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 1847 - 1929 former owner.
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Cadell & Davies publisher.
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England London.
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England Liverpool.
Identifier
B41243