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ROGERS, Samuel.

ROGERS, Samuel.

Poems.

SAMUEL ROGERS' POEMS
London: Edward Moxon, 1847.
12mo (6½" tall). Full calf. Extraordinary binding with twin red oval labels and dense geometric gilt tooling to the spine. The boards have a network of blind tooling within a gilt roll. Title page and frontispiece spotted, edges somewhat rubbed.
Illustrated with woodcuts and a fine engraved frontispiece plate. Rogers was a well known man of letters in early nineteenth century England and he was offered, but declined, laureateship in 1850. Pleasures of Memory and Jacqueline are amongst his most popular works.
£60.00

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