In a full leather binding, an 1830 first illustrated edition of Samuel Rogers' longest and final work, "Italy", written in poetry and prose. One of the most celebrated English poets of his age, Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) commenced a tour of the Continent in 1814 keeping a diary of impressions and events, but hurried home from Italy in early 1815 on the news of Napoleon's escape from Elba, only returning several years later. The first part of "Italy" was published anonymously in 1822 with the second part under his own name following in 1828. Initially the work was a failure, but after he enlarged and revised the work and illustrations were added, commissioned from J.M.W. Turner R.A., Thomas Stothard, and Samuel Prout, this edition first published in 1830 was a great success.

The Contents cover: - The Lake of Geneva. - Meillerie. - St. Maurice. - The Great St. Bernard. - The Descent. - Jorasse. - Marguerite de Tours. - The Alps. - Como. - Bergamo. - Italy. - Coll'alto. - Venice. - Luigi. - St. Mark's Place. - The Gondola. - The Brides of Venice. - Foscari. - Marcolini. - Arquà. - Ginevra. - Bologna. - Florence. - Don Garzia. - The Campagna of Florence. - The Pilgrim. - An Interview. - Rome. - A Funeral. - National Prejudices. - The Campagna of Rome. - The Roman Pontiffs. - Caius Cestius. - The Nun. - The Fire-Fly. - Foreign Travel. - The Fountain. - Banditti. - An Adventure. - Naples. - The Bag of Gold. - A Character. - Pæstum. - Amalfi. - Monte Cassino. - The Harper. - The Feluca. - Genoa. - Marco Griffoni. - A Farewell. - Notes. 

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On Sale is an 1830  first illustrated edition of * Italy - A Poem *, by Samuel Rogers, with 55 steel engraved illustrations after J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Stothard, etc., (tissue-guarded where engravings are on facing pages), engravings produced by Edward Goodall, etc., published by T. Cadell, Jennings & Chaplin, and E. Moxon, London, [first published in two parts 1822 and 1828 - first illustrated edition 1830], this one is dated 1830 to the title page and to the cover's spine with no other editions or impressions listed although it would be from the second issue of that year as the first issue had the illustrations at pages 88 & 91wrongly transposed, size approximately 8-1/4 inches x 5-1/2 inches, with vii and 284 pages. 

The decorative original full-leather covered hardcover with gilt tooling to the covers and spine and a gilt spine title, is surface-rubbed mainly to the corners and spine with some surface cracking to spine-edges and a 4-1/2 inch split along the upper part of the front spine-edge, both boards attached, gilt reasonably bright with title clearly legible, not faded, a few light surface indentations, otherwise fairly clean and tidy (see photo's 1, 2, 3 & 4). Inside is complete, all page edges gilt, the front endpaper is fully split along the fold with the rear endpaper sound and not split, has a previous owner's signature and place-name dated for 1848 written to the front free endpaper, no other writing or graffiti, hinges sound with both boards attached, binding tight with pages well attached, corners not turned and pages not torn, variable age-toning shading across the margins (possibly darker than shows in the photo's), some scattered foxing throughout mostly to margins, not heavily read, a small watermark to upper spine corners, otherwise reasonably clean and tidy. Please view all 13 photographs above enlarged, as they form part of the description.

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