The life of Thomas Chatterton, with criticisms on his genius and writings, and a concise view of the controversy concerning Rowley's poems. By G. Gregory, D.D. F.A.S. Author of Essays historical and moral, &c.

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Bound with: Thomas Chatterton, [John Broughton] (ed.), Miscellanies in prose and verse; by Thomas Chatterton, the supposed author of the poems published under the names of Rowley, Canning, &c. London, Printed for Fielding and Walker, 1778, 8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. vi, [2], 263, [1]. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-R⁸ S⁴. 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. xxxii, 245 (p.207 misnumbered 107), f. [1] (plates), pp. [3], 243-246, f. [1] (blank). Includes frontispiece and other illustrations. Preface signed: J.B. [i.e. John Broughton] (see British Museum Catalogue; Dictionary of National Biography). The present work is publishing newly surfaced “Rowley” material. It contains a gratuitous prefatory attack on Horace Walpole. There are two copies in this collection. The present is in mottled calf, has gilded boards' edges, and gilded spine with red panel. It is bound with Gregory’s ‘Life of Chatterton’ (1789, reprinted from the second edition of Biographia Britannica (vol. 4, pp. 573-619, with some changes in arrangement); see Bib# 712036/Fr# 445 in this collection), in which yet more “Rowley” scraps appeared. The Appendix (p. [229]-263) contains the Chatterton poem “The art of puffing” and “Letters of Thomas Chatterton.” Sig. A2v comprises "An extract from Kew Gardens, an unpublished MS of Chatterton being a facsimile of his hand writing." See also ESTC, T145606. See also ESTC, T39457; M.A. Warren, A descriptive bibliography of Thomas Chatterton. New York, 1977, p. 5. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record for Gregory ; Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record for [Broughton] .