CHATTERTON, Thomas (1752-1770)]. The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin . London: Sold by W. Goldsmith, 1772. 4 o in half-sheets (258 x 202 mm). (Lacks final blank, title and text lightly spotted, H1 with repairs at gutter touching one letter of text.) Modern panelled calf antique. Provenance : J.G. Cox (invoice laid-in from Langdon and Davis, 1929) -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 22 August 1972. Exhibited : Grolier Club, ' This powerfull rime ,' 1975, no. 40. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book and the first of Chatterton's Rowley forgeries. When he was 16, Chatterton showed his manuscript to George Calcott and perpetuated the myth that it was the work of Thomas Rowley of Bristol, "a Priest in the 15th Century" (Preface). Horace Walpole ascribed it to Bishop Percy, despite Chatterton's eventual admission to his mother and sister that it was his own work. It was published 2 years after Chatterton's suicide by both W. Goldsmith and F. Newbery, each issuing the book with individual title-pages. "This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things" (Samuel Johnson, quoted by Boswell). RARE; only two copies are recorded in ABPC in the last 50 years. Ashley I, p.181; Hayward 187; Rothschild 587.
CHATTERTON, Thomas (1752-1770)]. The Execution of Sir Charles Bawdin . London: Sold by W. Goldsmith, 1772. 4 o in half-sheets (258 x 202 mm). (Lacks final blank, title and text lightly spotted, H1 with repairs at gutter touching one letter of text.) Modern panelled calf antique. Provenance : J.G. Cox (invoice laid-in from Langdon and Davis, 1929) -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 22 August 1972. Exhibited : Grolier Club, ' This powerfull rime ,' 1975, no. 40. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book and the first of Chatterton's Rowley forgeries. When he was 16, Chatterton showed his manuscript to George Calcott and perpetuated the myth that it was the work of Thomas Rowley of Bristol, "a Priest in the 15th Century" (Preface). Horace Walpole ascribed it to Bishop Percy, despite Chatterton's eventual admission to his mother and sister that it was his own work. It was published 2 years after Chatterton's suicide by both W. Goldsmith and F. Newbery, each issuing the book with individual title-pages. "This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things" (Samuel Johnson, quoted by Boswell). RARE; only two copies are recorded in ABPC in the last 50 years. Ashley I, p.181; Hayward 187; Rothschild 587.
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