Miscellanies in Prose and and Verse;

The first edition of the poet Thomas Chatterton's (1752-1770) supposedly non-Rowleyan works. The result, edited by John Broughton, was a confusing publication which muddled Chatterton's descriptive verse, African Ecologues and Ossianic imitations with the literary output of his medieval creation Thomas Rowley.

'Whereas in Tyrwhitt's Rowley [published the previous year] the pseudo-medieval texts were printed as 'literary curiosities' of dubious authenticity and devoid of a clearly defined authorial head, in Miscellanies the acknowledged works were presented as the sincere expressions of the proud genius forced to dabble in all manner of modern literary forms' (Cook, p. 70).



First edition; 8vo; bookplate to front pastedown, half-title, final leaf of ads., p.207 misnumbered 107, lacking plates; contemporary tree calf, spine in gilt compartments, morocco title-piece to spine, minor wear to extremities with loss to head spine cap; xxxii, 245, [3]pp.

ESTC T39457.