William Roscoe (1753-1831), man of letters, one of England's...

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William Roscoe (1753-1831), man of letters, one of England's first abolitionists and sometime MP for his native Liverpool, the Roscoe family album, almost certainly compiled during WR's librarianship at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, c. 1815-22, compiled with tipped-in and loosely-inserted manuscript, mostly verse, but with occasional prose, original and taken from belles-lettres, and one print, comprising: 1) Bonaparte General en chef de l'Armée d'Italie/Dessiné d'après Nature a Milan, s.l., s.n., n.d. [1796], portrait, engraving, 16.2 x 12.2cm, inscribed in contemporary manuscript pencil: from W Bracy Clark, Dec. 4. 1797 ; 2) ALS from WR, dated Lodge Lane, [Liverpool], Feb:y 21st 1824, addressed to Pleasance, Lady Smith (née Reeve; 1773-1877), Surrey Street, [Norwich], referencing their time at Holkham together and touching on some members of the Coke family, partial red wax seal; 3) Horace Beevor Love (1800-1838) after Sir Francis Chantrey RA (1781-1841) - Marble Bust of Sir James Edward Smith, signed, further inscribed in pencil, wash en grisaille, 30 x 19cm; 4) 18th c stipple engraved portrait of Louis XVI, inscribed in pencil: bought from Paris by J.E. Smith in 1786 & is an exact likeness, 27 x 20.5cm; 5) a contemporary transcript of Matthew Gregory Lewis's Alonzo the brace and fair Imgoine: a Romance, n.d. [1796-97], ink MS on paper, foolscap; 6) Americana: MS copy of a letter of Lafeyette's, dated 1829, illustrated with a drawing of the George Washington head seal; 7) Royalty: two cut-out paper work trees, reputedly by the hand of Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), later Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg, n.d., the outer wrapper with MS attribution: Cut by Princess Elizabeth & given me by herself ; 8) one leaf with three autograph manuscript scraps, by Queen Charlotte, 1792, and her daughters Princess Elizabeth and Princess Augusta; 9) Gay's Receipt to Stew Veal, ink MS on paper; 10) Curious Epitaph, in Pewsey Church Yard, Dorestshire, MS on paper; 11) Reverence of King Edward the 6th for the Bible, ink MS on paper; 12) an 1820 copy of Leopold, Prince of Saxe-Coburg's signature; MS poem of 2pp of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; 13) Monody on the death my friend H.R., 8pp, ink MS on paper, further inscribed: Given me by the author/ William *** Roscoe/ July 1805 ; 14) Lines - on receiving from Doctor Rush of Philadelphia a piece of the Tree under which William Penn made his Treaty [...], 1812, 2pp; 15) Song - On the Ball given by the Friends of Brougham and Creevey, Liverpool, 1812, 1pp; 16) Lines to be placed under the Picture of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Henry Bathurst Lord Bishop of Norwich at Holkham, 1pp; 17) Parting, 1814, 1pp; 18) Letter-writing, 2pp; 19) Lines written extempore by W. Roscoe in an Alcove at Allerton, to verso: On the death of a Lady, 2pp; 20) To T.W. Coke Esq:r M.P. Holkham, as a mark of the sincere respect & attachment of The Author [...], Sonnet [by] [...] W. Roscoe, Allerton 10th Jan:y 1815, All the above is inscribed in the first page of the copy of W. Roscoe's Leo the 10th presented to W. Coke, 1pp; 21) To the Viscountess Dowager Anson (née Coke) on her Birth day [...], William Roscoe, 1821, 3pp; 22) To William Roscoe Esq [...], January, 1821, EWC, 1pp; 23) Sonnet To The Lady Jerningham [by] Mary Anne Roscoe, Nov:r 1823, 1pp; 24) Lines Addressed by * John Taylor to his brother the Rev:d Philip Taylor of Dublin [...], April 1824, 2pp; 25) Ode to Sickness by Wm. Corrie, 4pp; 26) Verses written in the Album at Cossey, 2pp; 27) Sonnet To the Nymph I love, 1pp; 28) "Sweet are the songs from Scotland's coast [...]", 2pp; 29) Verses by the Revd Crabb On His Visiting Normanston in the Year 1785, 3pp; 30) Folk Lore: The Wolf Thing, or Little Red Riding Hood, 2pp; 31) Cookery: To make Herb Soup, 1pp; 32) On seeing my dear Mother laid in her Coffin, 30th March 1820 [...], 2pp; 33) Cobbold (John?, translator), I feel ye, well-known Breezes! [...], 1pp; 34) To "the Rowende Table" - Sonnet, 1pp; 35) another copy; 36) Taylor (Arthur), Morte Arthur, 1pp; another copy; 37) Sonnet/Translated by Miss Schuty 1pp; 38) Inscription on a Tablet in Quidenham Church In Memory of The Lady Sophia Macdonald (née Keppel) [...] September 29th 1824 [...], 2pp; 39) Impromptu [...] Lord Lyttelton at home [...], Transcribed by Miss Sparrow, daughter of Lady Olivia Sparrow - at Holkham, Now Lady Mandeville, 1pp; 40) an indistinct poem of 2pp; 41) copy of an 18th c French letter, dated 1771, with English translation, 4pp; 42) The Attributes of God, 1pp; 43) Bishop Lowth, "I spent many years in that illustrious society [...]", 1pp; 44) Quarterly Review (May 1816) of Alison's Sermons, 1pp; 45) Marville on studying history, 1pp; 46) On seeing Mr West's Picture of the burning of Sodom, 1pp; 47) Humanitati S. by Abbé Correia da Serra, 1pp; 48) Sweet maid! [...] on the death of Mary Wilkinson [by] J.E.S., 1pp; 49) lines from Boothby's Penelope, 1pp; 50) After Martial, 1pp; 51) Fair art thou oh Allerton! [...], Oct. 1790, 2pp foolscap; 52) Sweet Verbena [&] Hymn, two works to a sheet by JES; 53) Description of a Masquerade at the Hon:le Mr. [Nicholas] Herbert's at Great Glemham [Suffolk] [...], 25th Sept:er 1770, 4pp; 54) Thursday 2 o'clock, Going to drink tea with Mrs. Stevens, an ALS of 7pp; approx. 18 further items, including another account of the Stratford masquerade at Hebert's, but dated 1769, contemporary russia gilt over marbled boards, Bound by Cupper & Ibes, Bank Place, Norwich, ticket to pastedown, the spine lettered in gilt: MANUSCRIPTS, now disbound, some worn losses, folio (35 x 24cm)