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Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol By
Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol By
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Author: Rowley, Thomas [pseudonym of Thomas Chatterton]
Title: Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol By Thomas Rowley and Others in the Fifteenth Century; The Greatest Part Now First Published from the Most Authentic Copies, with an Engraved Specimen from One of the Mss.
Place Published: London
Publisher:T. Payne and Son
Date Published: 1777
Description:


xxviii, 333 pp. One engraved plate. (8vo) modern full brown calf, spine gilt, red morocco label. First Edition.



Thomas Rowley and this compilation of supposed medieval poetry were the invention of the young Thomas Chatterton who took his life by poison at the age of only 17, despondent over his lack of literary good fortune.

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Some foxing and browning within, binding fine.
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