Poems by Samuel Rogers
1834
$350.00
Guaranteed as described. Shipped insured.
Stock no. UN-0026
London: Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars, 1834. Numerous illustrations. Octavo. Publisher's full leather illustratively stamped in gilt and red. Gilt text block edges. viii, 295. Paper ex libris label, mildly foxed throughout, wear on leather edges, some scratches on leather covers, back cover corners lightly starting. Still a good to very-good copy.
Samuel Rogers was a prominent English poet and patron of the arts. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1796 and offered the position of Poet Laureate following the death of William Wordsworth in 1850, which he declined.
