The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth: In Four Volumes

William Roscoe

Liverpool : Printed by J. McCreery ; For T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, London, 1805

[Fine binding] 4 volume set. Quartos.  Bound in crimson, straight-grained morocco.  Gilt ruled, gilt spine.  Spines darkened. All edges gilt. Gilt meander. Marbled end pages. Three engraved frontispieces portraits engraved in stipple by Houghton. xxxvii,[2], 336, 96 pp, 333, 144 pp, 381, 120 pp, 346, 87 pp, xxix, index. Scattered foxing, spotting throughout. William Roscoe was an English historian, leading abolitionist and miscellaneous writer, perhaps best known today as an early abolitionist and for his poem for children "The Butterfly's Ball," and the "Grasshopper's Feast."  The first biographical work of Pope Leo X (Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 1475-1521). 

Armorial bookplate, motto: "In Arduis Viget Virtus."