Accession number
PML 145806
Creator
Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855.
Published
London : Edward Moxon, 1838.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated with steel engravings by R. Wallis, E. Goodall, J. Pye, W.R. Smith, W. Finden, H. Le Keux, Daniel Allen etc., chiefly after drawings by Turner and Stothard; the plates being unsold proof impressions for the 1830 edition of Roger's "Italy". Cf. W.G. Rawlinson. The engraved work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A. London : Macmillan, 1913, v. II, p. 232.
"Bradbury and Evans, Printers-extraordinary to the Queen, Whitefriars."--Colophon.
Large paper issue of the quarto edition, with the engravings in the second published state, printed on chine collé.
"Bradbury and Evans, Printers-extraordinary to the Queen, Whitefriars."--Colophon.
Large paper issue of the quarto edition, with the engravings in the second published state, printed on chine collé.
Description
viii, 274 p., [46] leaves of plates : ill. (steel engraving) ; 31 cm
Provenance
Margaret Hooper; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Purple morocco tooled in gilt with white silk doublures stamped with the name of former owner, Margaret Hooper, in gilt; bound as a set with an accompanying copy of Roger's "Poems" (PML 145785).
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