Poems Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley in This 15th Century by Thomas Rowley
by Thomas Chatterton
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Davis, California, United States
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About This Item
Book: Flaws: The leather boards have much wear and tear with the board tips being bent (photo). Heavy and uniform toning of the page edges is consistent with a book that is over 200 years old.A tip-in description of the book isglued on the front paste-down page, along with an Ex Libris paper in the name of, "Christina Alexander" (photo). The front board/spine junction was separated but now expertly mended.
All pages and illustrations are present. No other marks or entries on any of the pages.
Rare copy of a very old book
From Wikipedia:
Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, and Coleridge.
Although fatherless and raised in poverty, Chatterton was an exceptionally studious child, publishing mature work by the age of 11. He was able to pass off his work as that of an imaginary 15th-century poet called Thomas Rowley, chiefly because few people at the time were familiar with medieval poetry, though he was denounced by Horace Wal[pole.
At 17, he sought outlets for his political writings in London, having impressed the Lord Mayor, William Beckford, and the radical leader John Wilkes. but his earnings were not enough to keep him, and he poisoned himself in despair. His unusual life and death attracted much interest among the romantic poets, and Alfred de Vigny wrote a play about him that is still performed today.
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- Bookseller
- Logos Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 453
- Title
- Poems Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol by Thomas Rowley in This 15th Century by Thomas Rowley
- Author
- Thomas Chatterton
- Format/Binding
- Fully leather-bound, boards and spine (photo)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- B. Flower
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1794
- Pages
- 329
- Size
- 5.5" x 8.5"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry, "Thomas Rowley"
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare & Collectable;
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