Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and others, in the fifteenth century; the greatest part now first published from the most authentic copies, with an engraved specimen of one of the MSS. To which are added, a preface [...]

Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and others, in the fifteenth century; the greatest part now first published from the most authentic copies, with an engraved specimen of one of the MSS. To which are added, a preface [...]

by Joseph (engr.) Strutt, Thomas Chatterton, T[homas] (ed.) Tyrwhitt

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Full title: Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and others, in the fifteenth century; the greatest part now first published from the most authentic copies, with an engraved specimen of one of the MSS. To which are added, a preface, an introductory account of the several pieces, and a glossary.


8vo. ff. [3] (blank), pp. xxvii, [1] (blank), 307, [1] (blank), f. [1] (plates) (pp. xiii misnumbered "xii;" p. 206 misnumbered “06”). Signatures: [a]² b⁸ c⁴ B-U⁸ X².


First edition, second issue, with the ‘Advertisement’ leaf (c4) appearing in the first issue (see Fr# 4103362/Bib# 414 in this collection) canceled, the text now ending ‘of Thomas Chatterton.’


There are two copies in this collection. The present is in calf and has a bookplate of Oliver Brett, Viscount Esher. It was George Catcott’s copy, containing 17 pp. of manuscript material copied from ‘a Transcript of the Original in Rowley’s writing now in Mr William Barratts possession’ and other sources, including a letter from Thomas Cary to Catcott, 14 August 1776. Other material bound in includes reviews and articles from the ‘Critical Review,’ the ‘Monthly Review,’ and the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine,’ marked by Catcott with references to himself (Catcott’s copy of the third edition, similarly marked up, appeared in Part II of the Thomas Jolley sale (19s. to Thorpe)). 


See also ESTC, N70222; M.A. Warren, A descriptive bibliography of Thomas Chatterton. New York, 1977, pp. 40-41; The Rothschild Library: A Catalogue of the Collection of Eighteenth-century Printed Books and Manuscripts Formed by Lord Rothschild. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1954, 589.


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