Roget (John Lewis, artist, art critic and writer, son of Peter Mark Roget, physician and philologist, compiler of Roget's Thesaurus, 1779-1869, 1828-1908) Diaries and sketchbooks including a tour of Germany, Switzerland and Italy, 2 vol., autograph manuscripts, together c. 185pp. excluding blanks, pen and ink illustrations, a few small sections cut away, slightly browned, original half morocco (not uniform), slightly rubbed, oblong 8vo & 8vo, 1844.

⁂ An account of a tour to Europe by John Lewis Roget with his father, Peter Mark Roget, his sister, Miss Spowers and Charles Mallet. In Geneva the party visits "the house in which my father lived 40 years ago." They also meet family relations including their cousins Mr. Romilly, Mr. Roget and Professor Roget, the latter telling "us that all our other relations were dead."After walking in the mountains, the party heads south to Italy and Milan where they watch boat races and a festival with fire balloons and rockets as well as visiting La Scala. The second manuscript is an account of the same tour written up by Roget in a more florid style.