[Rarebooks] fa: THOMAS CHATTERTON - ROWLEY'S POEMS 1777 - EARL CORNWALLIS' COPY

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, September 28. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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[Thomas Chatterton; Thomas Tyrwhitt (ed.):] 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 of one of the MSS. To which are added, a preface, an introductory account of the several pieces, and a glossary. London: Printed for T. Payne and Son, at the Mews-Gate, MDCCLXXVII [1777]. FIRST EDITION, second state, as usual (with the advertisement leaf ending with the words "Thomas Chatterton"). Tall 8vo (22 cm) in later tree calf with gilt-tooled borders, decorations and morocco spine label, later marbled endpapers; xxvii, [1], 307, [1] pp.; engraved frontispiece. ESTC T42675; Alston III.49

With the engraved armorial bookplate of the Earl Cornwallis on the front paste-down. 
Binding with just a touch of bumping and wear to the corners and a few light scuff marks; occasional scattered light spotting to the leaves, a bit heavier on the last 2 leaves; some bumping to the page edges; otherwise very clean and crisp, firmly bound. A handsome copy of the work that ignited one of the great literary controversies of the 18th century.