Rogers Samuel, Signed (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed and personally inscribed on the title page.this copy has a solid tight binding and clean unmarked pages. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Hardcover 1st edition - A clean solid copy with only a touch of shelfwear and chipping/rubbing of the dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. The book is signed and dated by the author on the half title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. About the book: Hardcover with jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by author on half title page. Book also bears a personal inscription from subject's namesake and grandson, Edward. Both book and jacket are in fine condition. Additional photos available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Hardback Edition. 240 x 160mm. pp. 130. English text. Volume on Edward Samuel Rogers and his roll in the development of radio. Inscribed to half-title. Black and white illustrations. Bound in original blue boards. housed in blue pictorial dust jacket. A little light wear, otherwise clean. Binding strong. No underlining. Inscribed By Author.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This beautiful book is almost 200 years old. The cover, in near fine condition, had come apart from the pages which were still all attached. It has been repaired with ribbon attaching the covers to the spine. The poem, Italy contains 236 pages followed by 47 pages of Notes. There are many b/w woodcut drawings throughout by two artists whom he does not name. There is a short letter to Mr. Denman on the second free page signed by Mr. Rogers on March 5, 1851.The pages are clean and free of all marks, tears, and folds. All three sides are gilt. The maroon cover is etched in gold around the edges and around a rectangle on both front and back. The binding is tight. Signed by Author(s).

Full Leather (Hardcover). Condition: Good. No Jacket. Brown suede leather on boards, with gilt lettering to leather labels on spine. Rubbing and bumping to extremities, with some mild 'show through', and slight losses of approx 1cm at the top of the spine on each volume. Top page edghes gilt. 1852 edition, endorsed, in ink, on a front free page 'To Lord Glenelg, from his affectionate friend Samuel Rogers 1853'. (Charles Grant, Baron Glenelg 1778 - 1866. Statesman and politician). Portrait og Rogers as frontis to Volume 1. Further illustrated with black and white vignettes, mainly as headers and footers to verses. Internally clean and tidy, and firm, throughout. 305pp and 327pp. A heavy set, which will incur additional carriage charges for non-UK customers. Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg. 1788-1876. Scottish politician and colonial administrator. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. LANDSEER, Sir Edwin Henry (1802-1873) to ROGERS, Samuel (1763-1855), introducing CUBITT, Sir William (1785-1861). Autograph letter signed, 9 May 1850. Single page, c. 185 × 115 mm, written in ink on pale cream wove paper, folded, with light age-toning and minor handling, otherwise in very good condition. The letter reads in full: 'Dear Mr Rogers, Pray have the kindness to let my friend Mr Cubitt see your precious house and lovely pictures. (He is the great Architect of modern times.) Believe me sincerely and faithfully yours, Edwin Landseer' A personal note of introduction from Sir Edwin Landseer, at the height of his fame and in the year of his knighthood, to the poet and collector Samuel Rogers, whose house in St James's Place was renowned as one of the most admired private galleries and literary salons in London. The 'Mr Cubitt' commended to Rogers is Sir William Cubitt, the leading civil engineer and architect of the period, later President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and responsible for major public works and royal commissions. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. New Edition. Autograph Letter Signed from Ticknor to noted British poet and man of letters Samuel Rogers tipped in front of Volume I. Inked notation front end page indicating "Sotherans March 1898 Literature" with the cut-out for the listing of this book, item no. 505, laid in. Finely bound in half crimson crushed Levant morocco extra over marbled boards, marbled end papers, tops gilt. From the private library of renowned British Dante scholar Paget Toynbee (1855-1932) with his engraved bookplate to front pastedowns. Near Fine, slight rubs at corners and edges, a bit of spotting at end papers only. The letter, on a single folded sheet, is headed "Clarendon Hotel, July 19-". runs roughly 70 words, and seems to be arranging a meeting with some American friends of Ticknor's. At bottom of letter in pencil "to Samuel Rogers". Ticknor's most important work, in fine binding and with distinguished provenance and with a wonderful ASSOCIATION ALS to Samuel Rogers, in all arguably the best copy of this work to be had. Autograph Letter Signed.

Condition: Good. The scarce first edition. 12mo. 148 pp. + 2 pp. ads. 7 engraved plates after T. Stothard. Presentation copy from the engraver, Dr. A. Anderson to Catherine Buel. Contemorary tree calf with gilt spine, Front cover missing. Back cover separated. Some foxing thoughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Guest Book. Unpaginated. With the rectos ruled in three columns, "Date; Date; Memoranda," and the versos ruled in two columns, "Name; Address." 12.5 x 20 cm. Contemporary dark green cloth boards, gilt title on the front board, all edges gilt. With "Tree Tops Rogers Rock on Lake George," in neat ink on the front free endpaper. Signed by Samuel Barber on the second leaf verso: "Samuel Barber, West Chester, Pa." With 39 other signatures, including "Paull Ferguson, Phila." on the next six leaves, with handwritten dates from 1926 to 1929. The remaining pages are blank. Samuel Osborne Barber II, born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His "Adagio for Strings" is considered a masterpiece of modern classical music, and he was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music (for the opera *Vanessa*, and his *Concerto for Piano and Orchestra*.). He attended the Curtis School of Music in Philadelphia. Paull Ferguson, a violist, also attended Curtis. In 1930 he was one of eight Curtis students accepted by Leopold Stokowski for entrance to The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition Signed by ROY FULLER and from his library. Dustrwrappers mylar covered with some tears and aging. Red cloth slightly edge faded. 8vo, 325 pages. Bookplate. Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 - 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born at Failsworth, Lancashire; His father, born at Fulham at Caithness, Leopold worked his way up to the position of works manager (also later becoming a director) of a rubber-proofing mill at Hollinwood, Greater Manchester, dying in 1920. Fuller was subsequently raised in Blackpool, Lancashire, and educated at Blackpool High School. Fuller was articled to a solicitor in 1928, in which year his first poem was published in the Sunday Referee. After qualifying as a solicitor in 1933, he worked for The Woolwich Equitable Building Society, ending his career as head of the legal department, before serving in the Royal Navy from 1941 to 1946. Poems (1939) was his first book of poetry. He also began to write fiction, including crime novels, in the 1950s, and wrote several volumes of memoirs. As a poet he became identified, on stylistic grounds, with The Movement. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1968 to 1973. From 1972 to 1979 he was a member of the Board of Governors of the BBC. The poet John Fuller is his son. In 1966 Anthony Powell dedicated to Fuller his novel The Soldier's Art, the eighth volume of his masterwork, A Dance to the Music of Time. He received a C.B.E. and Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1970 and the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 1980. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo, (vii) livpp, original blind stamped blue cloth, some light wear. This is Sharpe's Life of Rogers, the Poet, written for inclusion in the 1860 quarto edition of Roger's Works, and here Privately Issued in 8vo, for presentation and bound for the author by "Richmond & Son, London", with their ticket. The only dating is from the spine lettering "Life of Samuel Rogers 1859", presumably missing from the Harvard copy. No indication of copies printed, but presumably only a handful. Very rare. With two items from the Sharpe family laid in: An ALS from Samuel Rogers mentioning Walter Scott to a Richard Sharpe; and Samuel Rogers's amorial bookplate signed by Henry Sharpe and dated 1819. And a bookplate of a Sutton Sharpe.

One page, 7 x 4.5, cream color paper, folds, minor soil, pencil notes at top else a nice item. SIGNED AT END BY "S. ROGERS." Rogers writes to a Mr. Ashley that a "Command from his Majesty" will prevent him from keeping a dinner engagement.

Condition: Near fine. Extra Illustrated Limited Edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, 9 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (225 x 140mm) Half-titles, titles printed in red and black. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the limitation page "Five copies were (only) printed | on this hand-made paper for | sale. S. A. Rogers, 1887." EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 150 engraved, etched and lithographic 18th- and 19th-century portraits and views by various artists after Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence, Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and others, 10-page MANUSCRIPT INDEX of illustrations bound in at the end of volume II. Where captions are not included in the plate, they are neatly hand-written on the page margin in ink. Contemporary straight-grained tan morocco gilt by Fazakerley of Liverpool, the covers with gilt floral designs, the stems and leaves outlined in gilt, the flowers depicted with dark brown morocco inlays, the border of 4 gilt fillets with stepped corners enclosed within an outer single gilt fillet, the spines gilt in 6 compartments divided by raised bands, titled in gilt in 2 and dated at the foot, the other compartments decorated with fleurons surrounded by foliate cornerpieces, turn-ins ruled in gilt, top edges gilt, others trimmed; extremities lightly rubbed, unobtrusive small marks on spines; occasional light foxing and offsetting. Provenance: F.E. Dinshaw (armorial bookplates and pressmark labels); William Robinson (bookplates bound in after front free endpapers), and W.A. Foyle | Beeleigh Abbey library bookplate in red morocco pasted into front cover, in both volumes. AN EXTRAVAGANTLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY OF TABLE-TALK, FINELY-BOUND BY FAZAKERLEY AND LIMITED TO FIVE COPIES, inscribed on the verso of volume I half-title: 'five copies were (only) printed on this hand-made paper for sale H.A. Rogers. 1887'. The 145 portraits depict a broad range of the poet Samuel Rogers' contemporaries, friends and literary influences, and include Lord Byron, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Sydney Smith, Jonathan Swift, Horace Walpole, and William Wordsworth. 'Porsonia' is composed of recollections of the classical scholar Richard Porson, remembered for his learning, his ability 'to sit up drinking all night without seeming to feel any bad effects from it' and possessing 'more bad copies of good books than any private gentleman in England' (pp.319 and 329). Signed.

Condition: Very Good+. Brief ALS from Rogers to a Mr. W. Finden, in which he writes: "On second thoughts I am sorry to find all the engravings must be head-pieces." With a stamp to the verso on the address side indicating 12 Feb. 1827.

Eigenhändiger Brief (1 S. 8°) mit Unterschrift Wednesday, o.J. "Ma chere Comtessa, I shall be delighted to dine with you on Sunday next at 6 1/2 o clock, & will not fail in the mean time to call in the".

1 billet autographe signé 1/2 p. In-16 "Lundi 26" s.d. [Octobre 1849] Encre brune sur feuillet double. Bon. Pliure centrale. Le poète anglais Samuel Rogers fixe un mystérieux rendez-vous : "My dear Mr. Gould. Pray, pray remember to come on Monday the 26th at 10. Yours sincerely. S. Rogers". Poète britannique.