[Chatterton, Thomas]

Poems, Supposed to have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, andOthers, in the Fifteenth Century

London: Printed for T. Payne and Son,], 1777 Chatterton, who committed suicide at the age of 17 - became a veritable symbol to the Romantics of a tragic genius misunderstood by his contemporaries , a victim whose story "Told the keen Insult of th'unfeeling Heart, The dread Dependence on the low-bred mind, Told every pang, at which thy Soul might smart, Neglect, and grinning Scorn, and Want combin'd!" - Coleridge, Monody on the Death of Chatterton First edition, Second State (cancelled state of C4), with errata. Facsimile plate at p. 288. 307 pp. Bound in full contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked. Some rubbing at corners, internally fresh, a sound clean copy. Ashley x, p. 75; Hayward 188; Tinker 622; Rothschild 589

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