[Rarebooks] fa: SURRENDER AT YORKTOWN + THOMAS CHATTERTON & ROWLEY &c. in 1782 Gentleman's Magazine

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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume LII [52]. For the Year MDCCLXXXII [1782]. London: Printed by J. Nichols, for D. Henry, 1782. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Thick 8vo in early quarter calf and marbled boards; [4] + iv + 631 + [17] pp.; with 4 pp. of publisher's adverts, in-text charts and tables, woodcut illustrations, plus 13 copper-engraved plates and maps, four of which are folding.

With much on America and the Revolutionary War, in particular a number of articles related to the BRITISH SURRENDER AT YORKTOWN, including: Earl Cornwallis's Narrative of his Situation at York Town; Letters from Sir H. Clinton and Earl Cornwallis; Letters of Earl Cornwallis and General Washington ("Your Lordship will be pleased to signify your determination either to accept or reject the proposals now offered in the course of two hours from the delivery of this letter…"); summaries of debates in Parliament over the military disaster ("One army has already been lost at Saratoga; another at York-Town; and God knows where a third may be lost, were it to be trusted in the same hands…"); a Letter "said to be written at Philadelphia," about the "haughty treatment of the inhabitants of York-Town in Virginia" by the French army; "American News" with dispatches and letters from Philadelphia, New York, Fishkill, etc.

Other topics and features of note include:
	- THOMAS CHATTERTON & ROWLEY. With lively debates over the literary controversy in nearly every issue: Critique of Rowley's Poems; Chatterton versus Rowley; Rowley superior to Homer, Virgil, Spenser, and Shakspeare?; Anachronisms a strong Proof against Rowley; Arguments for the Authenticity of Rowley's Poems; Ode to Mr. Malone on the Rowleian Controversy; An Inquiry after several Particulars relative to the Life and Studies of Chatterton; etc.; plus two rather bizarre woodcut "burlesques on the Chattertonian controversy": "Curious Head of Cheddar, a Poet earlier than Rowley" and "Head of an Old Man, called the Monk Turgott, under a wig."
	- Much on Edward Gibbon and his Decline and Fall: Remarks on Mr. Gibbon's History; Gennadius misrepresented by Mr. Gibbon; A second Letter to Mr. Gibbon (continued over several issues); Gibbon's Objections to the Three Witnesses supported; etc.
	- Debates on the late memorable Revolution in the Ministry (re. the fall of Lord North and his government). 
	- A Letter from a Loyalist of Distinction at New York
	- Lord Howe's Account of the Relief of Gibraltar.
	- Admiral Hood on the Loss of St. Kitt's.
	- Admiral Hughes's Account of his memorable Engagements in the East Indies.
	- Description of the Monument erected in Westminster Abbey for Major John André ("On the front of the Sarcophagus, General Washington is presented in his tent, at the the moment when he had received the report of the court-martial of Major André…")
	- New and interesting Light thrown on the Ossian Controversy.
	- PLATES (with accompanying articles): Map of the Road from Lincoln to Saltfleet; a Design for a new Order of Architecture, by Emlyn (folding); A perforated Rock in Swisserland called Pierr Pertuis, with the Roman Inscription thereon; a Fish, Ophidium Barbatum (folding); Elevation and Section of the Bridge at Sturry near Canterbury (folding); View of the Temple of the Sepulchre at Jerusalem (from Sandy's Travels); Antient Inscription on the rib bone of a large animal (folding); the Cenotaph at Guildhall; etc.
	- The celebrated old Ballad, The Battle of La Hogue, altered and applyed to the late Naval Victory in the West Indies, by Miss Seward (Anna Seward).
	- On the Origin of Bull-baiting.
	- And much more…