Accession number
PML 145805
Creator
Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855.
Published
London : Edward Moxon, 1838.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
With steel engraved head and tail piece illustrations printed separately and inserted into the text throughout.
Illustrated with steel engravings by E. Goodall, W. Miller, W. Finden, H. Le Keux, etc., chiefly after drawings by Turner and Stothard; the plates being unsold proof impressions for the 1834 edition of Roger's "Poems", with the imprint on the plates reading, "London, Published 1833, by Moon, Boys, and Graves, Pall Mall". Cf. W.G. Rawlinson. The engraved work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A. London : Macmillan, 1913, v. II, p. 239.
"Bradbury and Evans, Printers to the Queen, Whitefriars."--Colophon.
Large paper issue of the quarto edition, with the engravings in the second published state, india paper chine collé impressions.
Illustrated with steel engravings by E. Goodall, W. Miller, W. Finden, H. Le Keux, etc., chiefly after drawings by Turner and Stothard; the plates being unsold proof impressions for the 1834 edition of Roger's "Poems", with the imprint on the plates reading, "London, Published 1833, by Moon, Boys, and Graves, Pall Mall". Cf. W.G. Rawlinson. The engraved work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A. London : Macmillan, 1913, v. II, p. 239.
"Bradbury and Evans, Printers to the Queen, Whitefriars."--Colophon.
Large paper issue of the quarto edition, with the engravings in the second published state, india paper chine collé impressions.
Description
viii, 266 p., [61] 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 "Italy" (PML 145786).
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