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ROSCOE, William. The Life of Lorenzo De'Medici, Called The Magnificent. London: Printed For A. strahan; T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies..., 1796. In two volumes. The second edition, corrected. Large paper issue (the second edition was published the same year as the first edition published in Liverpool.) 4to., contemporary marble boards that have been rebacked with modern grey paper spines, xxvi, (2), (1)-320, (1)-139;(4),312, 48, (112), (12)pp. With illustrations including an engraved frontispiece, vignettes and an in text illustration. Lacking the front free endpapers, some very light scattered foxing, the marble paper has been torn off portions of the boards, but this still a very good copy of the large paper issue.
This major 18th-century history of the Life of Lorenzo de' Medici won British historian William Roscoe immediate praise. “The idea of writing the Life of Lorenzo, his principal work, had occurred to Roscoe at an early age, and in 1790 his friend William Clarke consulted on his behalf many of the manuscripts and books in the libraries of Florence” (DNB). “An elegant piece of biography” (Lowndes, 2128), Life of Lorenzo was praised by Henry Fuseli for skillfully uniting the “general history of the times, and the political system of the most memorable country in Europe, with the characters of the most celebrated men, and the rise and progress of science and arts” (Analytical Review).