PRESCOTT, William Hickling (1796-1859). An album of memoirs and news cuttings concerning Prescott published shortly after his death, also including 18 autograph letters about the historian all apparently written to William Stirling Maxwell, with a copy letter from Prescott to the Duchess of Argyll dated 1857, and the 42-page manuscript proof of a memoir on Prescott likewise sent to Stirling Maxwell bound in at end, the printed memoirs and letters to Stirling alike dated 1859 (or without date), small 4°, contemporary black half morocco, spine titled "Prescott Memorial" in gilt (soiled, upper joints splitting), t.e.g.