WILSON, ARLINE — William Roscoe. Commerce and Culture.

Liverpool University Press. 2008, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 978 1 84631 130 7) Hardcover. Book, Writer, poet, historian, anti-slavery campaigner, botanist, book-collector, MP and art patron, William Roscoe has been acclaimed as the 'Founding Father of Liverpool Culture'. A friend and correspondent of Burns and Shelley, acclaimed by Horace Walpole as 'by far the best of our historians', and author of a poem 'The Butterfly's Ball' that delighted King George III so much he had it set to music. Roscoe's name is synonymous with Liverpool. Cloth with jacket. Illustrated. 227 p. As New.