A vindication of the appendix to the poems, called Rowley's, in reply to the answers of the Dean of Exeter, Jacob Bryant, Esquire, and a third anonymous writer; with some further observations upon those poems, and an examination of the evidence [...]

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Full title: A vindication of the appendix to the poems, called Rowley's, in reply to the answers of the Dean of Exeter, Jacob Bryant, Esquire, and a third anonymous writer; with some further observations upon those poems, and an examination of the evidence which has been produced in support of their authenticity; by Thomas Tyrwhitt. 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. vii, [1] (blank), 223, [1] (blank), f. [1] (plates), [3] (blank). Signatures: a⁴ B-P⁸. Includes facsimile. In 1782, spurred by Milles’s imposing fourth edition (see Bib# 4103366/Fr# 418 in this collection), and Jacob Bryant’s Observations upon the Poems of Thomas Rowley, in which the Authenticity of those Poems is Ascertained (1781, see Bib# 712041/Fr# 434), the scholarly and pseudo-scholarly world saw either the need for a negative consensus on the “Rowley” poems forged by Thomas Chatterton, or the opportunity for further mischief. Tyrwhitt, who had already capitulated to his own better judgement in an ‘Appendix’ to the 1778 third edition (‘the poems attributed to Rowley [...] were written, not by any ancient author, but entirely by Thomas Chatterton,’ see Bib# 4103365/Fr# 417 in this collection), confirmed his stance in the present work. The "third anonymous writer" in the title is John Fell, who published "Remarks on the appendix of the editor of Rowley's poems," 1782. See ESTC, T50838. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.