1817 Leather bound Copy of Roper's famous "Life of Sir Thomas More". In good condition EXCEPT that front cover is detached. Many interesting names and notes and clippings in this book, all related to prior owners and the life of More: Bookplate of British MP William Fowler. Vintage Pencil notes by prior booksellers. "Limited Edition 150 copies". Engravings of More and his family. Appendix with letters of More to Cromwell, to More's daughter Margaret and more. Some notes and clippings and engravings, all dated in the 1800s are pasted in the blank back pages.

Apparently the prior owner, who was Rev. John Mitford, added the notes and the clippings and engravings. 

John Mitford (1781–1859) was an English clergyman and man of letters.

Mitford's collections were dispersed after his death by Sotheby & Wilkinson. His fine art collection of silver Greek coins, cameos, and miniatures was sold on 30 June 1859, the engravings and drawings on 23 July 1859 and two following days, his Greek and Latin classics on 17 December 1859 and six following days. This sale produced £1,029. 19s. The library of English history, plays, and poetry was sold on 24 April 1860 and eleven following days, producing £2,999 2s.; and his manuscripts on 9 July 1860, producing £817 3s. The manuscripts contained three volumes of autograph letters, papers relating to Thomas Gray, his own recollections in fifty-five volumes, the correspondence of Jonathan Toup. Many of the books, with his notes, went to the libraries of Alexander Dyce and John Forster at the South Kensington Museum, or in the library of the British Museum. His commonplace-books are now Add MSS 32559-32575 of the British Library, and from them were printed Some Conversations with the Duke of Wellington.