POEMS ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS. Consisting of original pieces, and translations from some of the most admired Latin classics: with the original text, and copious notes, historical, mythological, and critical. The whole interspersed with reflections, remarks and anecdotes, pointed to the present times. ROGERS, The Rev. Samuel. Poetry

Two volumes bound in one, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece and pp. xxxii, 304; xviii, [ii], 340; with a list of subscribers in volume I (misbound, but complete); a decent copy in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, joints cracked but sound. First and only edition. This Samuel Rogers (1730-90), not to be confused with the banker-poet, was educated at Cambridge and became chaplain to Lord Spencer, resulting also in various benefices in the Althorpe area, latterly at Husbands Bosworth. The collection was issued by subscription, and is prefaced by a long list, with the names including Samuel Johnson. Other friends and acquaintances of Johnson's on the list are Daniel Lysons, Arthur Murphy and William Woty. Eddy & Fleeman, Preliminary Handlist, 55. Provenance. Ownership inscription of Wad. Locke, Devizes. This is clearly the Wadham Locke of Devizes, Wilts, whose name is in the subscription list.