Title: The execution of Sir Charles Bawdin. Dedicated to Her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland
Description: <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;"> 4to. f. [1] (blank), pp. [2], iv, 26. Calf-backed boards. Gilded spine, red lettering panel. "Thomas Chatterton" inked on title page. Stamps of Warlington Museum amd Library. Marginalia on p. 17.</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;">The first edition of any ‘Rowley’ poem in book form; potentially the first issue, with the original Newbery imprint. The British Museum Catalogue lists another edition of this work, published by W. Goldsmith, the same year. Of the Newbery edition it says: "Another copy. A portrait of the Duchess of Northumberland and an additional title page bearing the name of F. Newbery are inserted in this copy." This copy contains no additional title page and no portrait so it may be that published by Goldsmith. Attributed to Thomas Rowlie, i.e., Chatterton, in the preface of the 1772 edition sold by Goldsmith. Cf. ESTC, N7084.</span><br /></p><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;"><br /></span></p><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;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039124369707861" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>