Title: The Works of Thomas Chatterton Vol. I. Containing His Life, By G. Gregory, D. D. and Miscellaneous Poems
Description: <p></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;">First of 3 volumes in 8vo. pp. [19], clx, 361. Signatures: [a]1 b-c4 B-L8 B-Z8 Aa4 Bb2. Half calf. Front endpapers have bookplates of Rev. F. Saunderson and of Mr. M.P. Manfield. Letter of J.T. Rutt to the editor of the Monthly Repository tipped in front. Catalogue clipping pasted on back endpaper.</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;">Gregory’s Life of Chatterton is here reprinted from Kippis’s Biographia Britannica, see Dictionary of National Biography.</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;">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.</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/catalog/bib_712032" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>