Italy :
a poem /
by Samuel Rogers ; with cuts.

Description

Main Author

Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855

Related Names

Smith, J. (James), -1847, printer.
Best, Jean, 1808-1879, wood engraver.
Thiébault, Antoine, 1807-1880, wood engraver.
Cowland, J. (Wood-engraver), wood engraver.
Marville, Charles, 1813-1879, illustrator.
Geoffroy, Charles Michel, 1819-1882, illustrator.
Stassin et Xavier (Paris, France)
Baudry's European Library

Language(s)

English

Published

[Paris] : Printed by J. Smith, 16, rue Montmorency
Paris : Baudry's European Library, 3, quai Malaquais, near the pont des Arts, and Stassin and Xavier, 9, rue du Coq-St.-Honore, 1840.

Subjects

Italy > Italy / In art.
Italy > Italy / Social life and customs > Italy / Social life and customs / Poetry.
Italy > Italy / History > Italy / History / Anecdotes > Italy / History / Anecdotes / Poetry.
Italy > Italy / Description and travel > Italy / Description and travel / Poetry.
Topographical poetry.
Narrative poetry.
Travel writing.
Illustrated works.

Note

Illustrations: 75 wood-engraved vignettes, chiefly unsigned. Four bear illustrator's signature: C. Geoffroy, pages 45 and 95; C. Marville, pages 104 and 158; 3 bear engraver's signature: J. Cowland, page 45; A. Thiébault, page 104; A.J. Best, page 158. Illustration on page 243 is signed with monogram DC.
NYPL copy lacks engraved frontispiece, apparently as issued.
Engraved frontispiece (the Tiber, with St. Peter's and the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome).
Originally published with different illustrations: London : Printed for T. Cadell ... Jennings and Chaplin ... and E. Moxon ..., 1830. Two sections, "The brothers" and "Montorio," were added to editions published after 1830.
Chiefly in verse; some sections in prose.
Some copies have on title page: "with 75 cuts."

Physical Description

8 unnumbered pages, 30, 31*-34*, 31-252 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm

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