The works of Thomas Chatterton. Vol. II. Containing the Poems Attributed to Rowley

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Second of 3 volumes in 8vo. pp. [7], 536 (p. 224 misnumbered 204). Signatures: [A]3 B-Z8 Aa-Ll8 Mm4. Half calf. Front endpaper has bookplate of Rev. F. Saunderson and of Mr. M.P. Manfield. Marginal notations. Glossary on pp. 520-536. Gregory’s Life of Chatterton is here reprinted from Kippis’s Biographia Britannica, see Dictionary of National Biography. First edition of a three-volume collection of the work of Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), edited by Robert Southey and Joseph Cottle, with some new material. Volume 2 contains the Rowley poems, for which Chatterton is best known. Ironically, these ambitious forgeries were never published under his own name in his lifetime: he claimed that the poems were transcripts he had taken from the work of Thomas Rowley, a fifteenth-century monk. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.