Roger's Italy

Cover for Roger's Italy

8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches

1830

Gold-stamped green leather binding

This handsome full leather binding may have been intended as a gift book, but the beautiful design and extreme precision of the gold-stamping — particularly the Green urn — suggest it could have been bound by the purchaser, too. [GPL].

References

Rogers, Samuel. Italy, A Poem. Illustrated by Turner and others. London: T. Cadell and E. Moxon, 1830.


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