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Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers. First Illustrated Editions.

Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers. First Illustrated Editions.

Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers. First Illustrated Editions.

Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers. First Illustrated Editions.

Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers. First Illustrated Editions.

Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers. First Illustrated Editions.

Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers. First Illustrated Editions.

Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers. First Illustrated Editions.

Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers. First Illustrated Editions.

Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers. First Illustrated Editions.

Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers. First Illustrated Editions.

Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers. First Illustrated Editions.

Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers. First Illustrated Editions.

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Italy, A Poem [and] Poems, Samuel Rogers

First illustrated editions of Rogers's two celebrated illustrated books, uniformly and elaborately bound in full red morocco. Rogers, a wealthy banker as well as a poet and notable patron of the arts, commissioned J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Stothard to illustrate his verse with steel engravings: Turner supplied many of the atmospheric landscape subjects, while Stothard contributed the figure scenes. The resulting volumes are among the most celebrated productions of Romantic-era book illustration, and the success of the 1830 Italy prompted Rogers to issue this similarly sumptuous edition of his Poems four years later.

London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jennings and Chaplin, and E. Moxon, 1830; Printed for T. Cadell and E. Moxon, 1834. Two octavo volumes uniformly bound in contemporary full red morocco, covers richly decorated in gilt with floral and foliate tools, spines with five raised bands, elaborately gilt compartments and black morocco labels, wide floral gilt turn-ins, and all edges gilt; pp. vii, [1], 284, [2]; viii, [5]-295, [1]. Profusely illustrated with steel-engraved headpieces, tailpieces, and vignettes after Turner, Stothard, and others. Italy is in the second issue, with the vignettes correctly placed on pages 88 and 91. Armorial bookplate of Charles Douglas Halford (1793-1865) on the front pastedown of each volume. An unsigned manuscript index to the illustrations, keyed to their page numbers, is mounted at the rear of Poems.

Halford's library included other substantial illustrated works: auction records trace his copy of Turner and Girtin's River Scenery and his set of Latham's General History of Birds by the same armorial bookplate. The matching contemporary bindings may have been commissioned for Halford's library, although no binder's signature is visible.

A very good or better, exceptionally attractive set. Bindings remain sturdy and present beautifully, with light rubbing at the joints and extremities, minor wear to the spine ends and corners, and a few small marks; gilt remains notably bright. Contents generally clean, with occasional light spotting, toning, and offsetting from the engravings. The manuscript index shows expected toning. A handsome pair of landmark illustrated books in a striking contemporary binding.

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