Rogers (Charles) A Collection of Prints in imitation of drawings, to which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes, 2 vol., engraved additional titles by Bartolozzi after G. B. Cipriani, engraved portrait frontispiece after Joshua Reynolds by Ryland, engraved dedication leaf by Ashby, and 112 artworks in 108 plates (2 folding) on 105 leaves, engravings, soft-ground etchings, mezzotints, stipple-engravings, printed in sepia, black and bistre, engraved and woodcut head-pieces and decorations, duplicate plate loosely inserted, first and last few ff. of each vol. mounted on stubs, occasional offsetting, loosely inserted note in a contemporary hand stating "Subscriber's copy, this one the 13th - proofs on india paper", 20th century half calf, surface soiling to covers, folio, Printed by J. Nichols and sold by John Boydell, Benjamin White, and Peter Molini, 1778.

⁂ First edition of this fine, elaborate production with works after Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Corregio and others. . Rogers commissioned the leading engravers of his day to reproduce drawings in his own collection, as well as that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Earl Spencer, Robert Adam and John Barnard, among others.