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[ROSCOE FAMILY]. Poems for youth. By a family circle.

London. Printed for Robinson and Sons, 1820. First edition.
12mo. iv, 106pp. Contemporary straight-grained green morocco, gilt, recently rebacked with contemporary spine laid-down, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, some marking. Recent endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Ink gift inscription to verso of FFEP; 'Sarah Touchet / from Wm. Greg'.
Poems for Youth, collected and arranged by Mary Anne Roscoe (later Jevons), features the work of her sister Jane alongside their abolitionist father's best known (and much imitated) juvenile poem 'The Butterfly's Ball'.
£ 450.00 Antiquates Ref: 15148