Signed book: Poems by Samuel Rogers. London: T. Cadell, 1834. Hardcover (contemporary morocco-grained sheep), 5.5 x 8, 295 pages. Signed and inscribed in bold ink on an inserted leaf bound opposite the frontispiece, “Mr. H. H. Emmons requests the acceptance by J. H. Meredith Esq’r of two volumes of poems by the most pleasing English Poet of the present century—The Pleasures of Memory perhaps entitle him to a station among the druids of a former age, with the Bards of Avon, and of Thames, and of Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the Oracle of God. John Quincy Adams, Quincy, 11 Oct’r 1847.” Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG+/None. Accompanied by a custom-made half morocco clamshell case.
During the last summer of his life, Adams occupied himself by reading his favorite poets—Milton, Herodotus, and the contemporary Samuel Rogers. Feeble and stricken with palsy, Adams recorded the writing of this inscription in his diary, complaining of the physical effort which it required. A beautiful presentation volume boasting a fine literary inscription. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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