8vo. In two volumes. [3], vi, 501, [1]; [3], vi-xii, 491pp, [1]. Without half-titles. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume.Contemporary black half-morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, very occasional slight chipping to margins, else internally clean and crisp. With three signed letters tipped-in, in the hand of Robert, Thomas, and William Stanley Roscoe respectively, all creased and worn.

The first edition of Henry Roscoe’s (1800-1836) life of his esteemed father, William; here presented with three signed letters – each penned by one of his elder brothers, being writer and translator Thomas (1791-1871), and poets Robert (1789-1850), and William Stanley Roscoe (1782-1843).