Title: Observations upon the poems of Thomas Rowle
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;"> 2 volumes in one 8vo. pp. iv, 305, [2] (inserted), 306-597 [i.e. 599; pp. 367-368 numbered on recto only], [1], f. [1] (blank), [2] (folded). Signatures: [A]² B-T⁸ U⁷+² X-Pp⁸ Qq² (cancels B7, L8, U8, X8, Z6 &amp; 7, Aa2). Original paper wrappers, boxed. Includes folded tables.</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;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;">First edition. Spurred </span><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">by the present pseudo-philological essay making the case for the authenticity of the forged “Rowley” poems by Thomas Chatterton, the scholarly and pseudo-scholarly world saw either the need for a negative consensus on its authenticity, or the opportunity for further mischief. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;">Tyrwhitt, who had already capitulated to his own better judgement in an ‘Appendix’ to the 1778 third edition (‘the poems attributed to Rowley [...] were written, not by any ancient author, but entirely by Thomas Chatterton,’ see Bib# 4103365/Fr# 417 in this collection), confirmed his stance in A Vindication of the Appendix (1782, Bib# 2746697/Fr# 435), while Thomas Warton added corroborative details (1782, Bib# 1240679/Fr# 723), William Mason (1782, Bib# 4103383/Fr# 436) and George Hardinge (1782, Bib# 4103388/Fr# 442) provided satirical verse, Rayner Hickford (1782, Bib# 4103389/Fr# 443) and Edward Burnaby Greene (1782, Bib# 4103387/Fr# 441) obstinately espoused the Rowleian cause, and Thomas Mathias gave the inevitable ‘overview’ (1783, Bib# 6276152/Fr# 444).</span></font></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, T41882.</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/alma991024045209707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>