Title: 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.
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bound with: </b>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, &amp;c. London, Printed for Fielding and Walker, 1778, </span><span style="font-size:15.3333px;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">8vo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. vi, [2], 263, [1]. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-R⁸ S⁴. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">There are two copies in this collection. The present is in mottled calf, has gilded boards' edges, and gilded spine with red panel.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">It is bound with Gregory’s ‘Life of Chatterton’ (1789, </span><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">reprinted from the second edition of Biographia Britannica (vol. 4, pp. 573-619, with some changes in arrangement);</span></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> see Bib# 712036/Fr# 445 in this collection), in which yet more “Rowley” scraps appeared. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See also ESTC, T39457; M.A. Warren, A descriptive bibliography of Thomas Chatterton. New York, 1977, p. 5.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991024044979707861" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record for Gregory</a> <span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">; </span><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039124569707861" style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record for [Broughton]</a>.<span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> </span></p>