Title: The life of Thomas Chatterton, including his unpublished poems and correspondence. By John Dix
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;">8vo. pp. viii, 336. Signatures: [A]4 B-Y8. Includes frontispiece portrait. One of two copies in this collection. Half morocco Groton prize binding, awarded to Richard Storrs Childs, 1928. Bookplate of David Rice and Nannie R. Rice. Previously inscribed by Dix to Sir Henry Ellis. </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;">Deliberate falsifications by Dix are known and suspected: see E. H. W. Meyerstein, A life of Thomas Chatterton. London, 1930, p. xix; D. S. Taylor, The Complete Works. Oxford, 1971; N. Groom, The forger’s shadow: how forgery changed the course of literature. London, 2002; John Ross Dix in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.</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_4103394" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>