Title: Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol in the fifteenth century. By Thomas Rowley, Priest, &c. With a commentary, in which the antiquity of them is considered and defended. By Jeremiah Milles, D. D. Dean of Exeter
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;"> Large 4to. ff. [2] (blank), pp. ixi, [i], 545, [1], f. [1]. Stained calf.</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 elaborately edited and presented fourth edition of the “Rowley Poems” by Thomas Chatterton, defending the Rowley attribution, which by now had been widely suspected. Appended to the poems is "Additional evidence" supporting the theory that Rowley was the author of these poems, followed by an answer to Thomas Tyrwhitt's "Appendix", and "A glossary of uncommon words. Leaves A5, I3-4 and S3-4 supplied from another, smaller copy." See also ESTC, T147167.  </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/alma991039124539707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>