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| 041 | 0 | # | $a eng |
| 044 | # | # | $a uk |
| 100 | 1 | # | $a Roscoe |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | $a Illustrations, Historical And Critical, Of The Life Of Lorenzo De' Medici, called The Magnificent; With An Appendix Of Original And Other Documents. By William Roscoe. |
| 260 | # | # | $a London: $b Printed For T. Cadell, Strand; And W. Blackwood, Edinburgh. $c 1822. |
| 300 | # | # | $a [12], 223, [1], 168 p., frontis. (port.), 3 pl.: $b [2] illus.; $c 287 mm. (Quarto.) |
| 500 | # | # | $a The three plates are unnumbered, but each carries the number of the page next to which it is to be bound in: p. 90, 131, 200. The in-text illustrations are on pp. 96, 120. |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a [Half-title, frontis., t.p.] - Canzone Di T.J. Mathias A Guglielmo Roscoe - Prefatory Observations - [Text] - Appendix; [colophon]. |
| 508 | # | # |
$a The frontispiece portrait is captioned as 'Lorenzo De Medici. From a Bust by Michaelagnolo, presented by the Marquis Capponi of Florence to the Author', and signed as 'Drawn & Engraved by Edw. Smith.' The first plate (p.90) is captioned as 'Cosmo de' Medici ... from a Picture by Francesco Peselli'. The other two plates, and the two in-text illustrations, are unsigned. The printer is named on the title-page verso and in the colophon: 'J. M'Creery, Tooks Court, Chancery-Lane, London.' |
| 510 | 0 | # |
$a D.A. MacNaughton, Roscoe of Liverpool: his life, writings and treasure (1996); G. Murphy, William Roscoe, his early ideals and influence (1981); C.P. Darcy, The encouragement of the fine arts in Lancashire 1760-1860 (1976); M. Compton, 'William Roscoe and early collectors of Italian primitives', in Liverpool bulletin, 9 (1960-1), p.26-51; G. Chandler, William Roscoe of Liverpool (1953). On the printer and publishers see J. R. Barker, 'John McCreery, a radical printer, 1768-1832', in The Library, 5th ser. 16 (1961), p.81-103; J. R. Barker, 'Cadell and Davies and the Liverpool booksellers', in The Library, 5th ser. 14 (1959), p.274-80. |
| 520 | 2 | # |
$a The work was first published, in two volumes, in 1796 (also printed by McCreery), after ten years of research. It won immediate acclaim in Britain - 'Roscoe', declared Horace Walpole, 'is by far the best of our historians, both for beauty, style, and deep reflections' - and established Roscoe's international reputation. It is the study of a ruler who was also a scholar, and who promoted the arts both for their own sake and as a means of extending his political influence; and Roscoe probably took Lorenzo as a model for his own encouragement of the arts in Liverpool. Most plates are captioned, and show: [frontis.] 'Lorenzo De Medici ...'; [1](p.90) 'Cosmo de' Medici with his Son Piero and his grandsons Lorenzo and Giuliano ...'; [2](p.131) 'The Fable of Ambra, as carved on an Amber Fiaschetto ... formerly belonging to Lorenzo de Medici'; [3] (p.200) tomb design by Michelangelo. The two in-text illustrations (pp. 96, 120) show medallions representing Lorenzo de' Medici. The work is finely printed by McCreery - possibly using types cast by William Martin, who designed type for Boydell's Shakespeare printed by William Bulmer. |
| 561 | # | # | $a The half-title is inscribed in ink, 'Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A. with the Author's sincere respects', and in pencil, 'Arabella Fletcher'. The title page is inscribed in ink, 'Archer [?] December 1868'. Presented by Anthony Blunt, May 1944. |
| 563 | # | # | $a 20th-century grey-brown cloth, three-quarters covered with white paper; black morocco spine-label lettered 'Life Of Lorenzo De' Medici - Roscoe'. |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | $a Lorenzo de' Medici |
| 653 | # | # | $a Rulers - Arts - Patronage - Italy - Tuscany - Florence - History - 15th century |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Art history - Biography - Great Britain - 18th century - 19th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a cadell $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Blackwood $e publisher |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a McCreery $e printer |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Roscoe $e previous owner |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Lawrence $e previous owner |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a mathias |
| 700 | 0 | # | $a Michelangelo $e source artist |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Smith $e draughtsman $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Pesellino $e source artist |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Blunt, Anthony $e Donor |