£60
Extra-Illustrated by Gardner Wilkinson. Rogers (Samuel), Poems, association copy, London: Printed for T. Cadell, Strand; and E. Moxon, Dover-Street, 1834, stipple-engraved vignettes, ffep extra-illustrated with a full-length and a head-and-shoulders pencil portrait of the minor Romantic poet by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1975), "the Father of British Egyptology", the following blank with an ALS from Rogers to Lady Peel, dated 12 December, 1850, from 22 St James's Place, original publisher's green morocco by Hayday, signed, the covers blocked in gilt with the Warwick Vase, rubbed and split, the upper-cover just attached, all edges gilt, 8vo
Provenance: 1st: Julia, Lady Peel (née Floyd; 1795-1859), wife of sometime Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1788-1850); ALS from the author addressed to Lady Peel to recto blank. 2nd: Captain Arthur Granville Soames, OBE (1886-1962), later of Sheffield Park, Sussex, the son of Harold Soames, brewer of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and thus the brother of Olave Baden-Powell, wife to the Scout Movement founder; his armorial bookplate to recto pastedown; presumably sold with the rest of his library at Sotheby's, 8th February, 1954.
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