Lot 882
  • 882

(Chatterton, Thomas)

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  • Collection of contemporary editions of the Rowley poems, works on the authorship controversy, biographies, etc.
  • printed book
Poems Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley and others, in the Fifteenth Century. London: 1777. Engraved plate, C4 the usual cancel. Contemporary French red morocco, gilt. Hayward 188; Rothschild 589. — Another copy. C4 in original state. Contemporary marbled calf. —  The Second edition. Frontis and two plates. Contemporary red morocco. — The Third edition. Bound with the half title. Contemporary tree calf. — Another edition. Cambridge: 1794. Engraved title. Large paper copy. Contemporary red straight grain morocco, stained. — Another edition. Cambridge: 1794. Very fine contemporary English citron morocco, inlaid with blue and red morocco, gilt-tooled stars and flowers, watered silk endleaves, morocco hinges. — Another edition. London: 1794. Contemporary calf. First Miles edition. — The Works of Thomas Chatterton. London: 1803.  Three volumes. Uncut in original boards, with paper spine labels; extremely fine. Cloth case. — Hugh Walpole. A Letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton. Strawberry-Hill, 1779.  200 copies only., the correction on pg. 22 likely in the author's hand . Uncut. Modern boards. — Jacob Bryant. Observations upon the Poems of Thomas Rowley:... London: 1781. Contemporary calf. edward gibbons copy.Thomas Tyrwhitt. A Vindication of the Appendix to the Poem's called Rowley's.. London: 1782. Disbound. Cloth case. Mason. An Archaeological Epistle... London: 1782. Extracted from a bound volume. Cloth case. — Thomas Warton. An Enquiry into the Authenticity of the Poems... Second edition. London: 1782. Stitched uncut as issued. Cloth case. — Thomas James Mathias. An Essay on the Evidence,  External and Internal, Relating to the Poems... London: 1783. Contemporary calf, repaired. — Another edition. London: 1784. Contemporary calf. presentation from mathias. — Malone. Cursory Observations on the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley... London: 1782. Stitched uncut as issued. Cloth case. — Edward Burnaby Greene. Strictures upon a Pamphlet... London: 1782. Cloth Case. — Harding. Rowley and Chatterton in the Shades. London: 1782. Calf; rebacked. — Thomas Chatterton. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. London: 1778. Contemporary calf. — Another copy.  [bound with]: G. Gregory. The Life... London: 1789. Contemporary calf. — Chatterton. A Supplement to the Miscellanies. London: 1784. [bound with]: Walpole. A Letter tp the Editor of the Miscellanies. Strawberry Hill: 1779. — John Dix. The Life of Thomas Chatterton. London: 1837. Contemporary calf. — John Davis. The Life of Thomas Chatterton. London: n.d. Modern boards. [With]: Sir Herbert Croft. Love and Madness, four various editions.

Provenance

acquisition: 2004

Catalogue Note

Together  31 volumes, 8vo.