8vo. In two volumes. xxix, [1], 482; [6], 535pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary decorated paper boards, hand drawn fleur-de-lis motifs in red ink to upper boards, hand-ruled in green, gilt-tooled calf onlays, calf lettering-pieces, all edges red. Lightly dust-soiled. Brocade endpapers, inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf of Vol. I, occasional light spotting.

A late nineteenth-century edition of Roscoe's life of Pope Leo X, first printed in 1805. Though the work did not win the same critical approval as his life of Lorenzo de' Medici (1795) it nevertheless found a broad readership throughout Europe and the Americas; indeed even the inclusion of the Italian translation in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum did not halt it's circulation within the Papal States.