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Roscoe (William) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of the very select and valuable Library...which will be sold by auction...on Monday the 19th August, and Thirteen following Days, interleaved with prices and buyers' names neatly written in ink with leaf at end showing individual days' and other sales' totals, advertisement leaf for sales of Roscoe's prints, drawings and paintings at end, modern half calf, spine ruled in gilt and slightly faded, slip-case, 8vo, Liverpool, Winstanley, 1816. ⁂ William Roscoe (1753-1831) of Liverpool was a lawyer, abolitionist, botanist, author, art collector and bibliophile. In 1816 the Liverpool bank of which he was a partner was in financial difficulties and he was forced to sell his library and collection. According to the leaf at end the library raised £5154 8s 6d. with the major lot being a 14th century Italian illuminated manuscript Bible which was bought by Robinson for £178 10s and subsequently sold to Coke of Holkham for 200 guineas. Several of the books were bought by his friend Coke and others were bought by friends for him but he refused to accept these and they were donated to the Liverpool Athenaeum. The whole collection, with prints, drawings and paintings, totalled £9586 19s.