1856 Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers. To Which is Added Porsoniana.

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

The first edition of this work, handsomely bound in full morocco by Zaehnsdorf.

An extra-illustrated example of this work, which was issued without illustrations. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifty-further plates, all of which are engraved portraits.

A selection of recollections by Samuel Rogers, reminiscing on various conversations he had his many of his distinguished friends throughout his long life, such as Edward Burke and Charles Fox.

This volume also includes 'Porsoniana'.

With the bookplate of George Booth to the front pastedown.

Rogers was a Romantic poet who, despite being very celebrated during his lifetime, has been eclipsed by his colleagues such as Byron and Coleridge since his death. He was great friends with many popular romantic poets, and kept enlightening and amusing recollections of the artistic and literary life of London in that era.