Italy, A Poem.

small 8vo., viii, 306pp., 12 engraved vignettes to text after drawings by E. Landseer, Sir A.W. Callcott, etc., bound in contemporary full olive green calf with decorated outer borders, gilt decorated spine with contrasting morocco label, slightly rubbed on some extremities. A VG clean copy in a generally nice binding. Ex Libris A.M. Lambert with a neat presentation inscription to blank front free endpaper dated 1841. In 1814 Rogers made a tour on the Continent with his sister Sarah. He travelled through Switzerland to Italy, keeping a full diary of events and impressions, and had made his way to Naples when the news of Napoleon's escape from Elba obliged him to hurry home. Seven years later he returned to Italy, paying a visit to Byron and Shelley at Pisa. Out of the earlier of these tours arose his last and longest work, Italy. The first part was published anonymously in 1822; the second, with his name attached, in 1828.