Author: CHATTERTON (Thomas):
Title: Poems, Supposed to have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century.
Description: Cambridge: Prined by B. Flower, For the Editor; and Sold by the Printer..., 1794. 8vo, 226 x 139 mms., pp. xxi [xx blank, xxi - xxii text], 329 [330 blank], additional engraved title before printed title page, contemporary half calf; very worn, front cover detached. A reading copy only. The preface is signed "L. S." for Lancelot Sharpe. The work was first published in 1770, edited by Thomas Tyrwhitt. Of that edition, the Critical Review asserted, "A more curious and entertaining publication than this, is very rarely offered to the public. We had long ago heard of the poems discovered at Bristol, and ardently wished for a perusal of them; but without hope of ever seeing them ushered into the world with so many advantages as they derive from the experience and judgment of their present editor."

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