The works of Thomas Chatterton ...

Accession number: 
PML 5973-75
Author: 
Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770.
Published: 
London : Printed by Biggs and Cottle ... for T. N. Longman and O. Rees ..., 1803.
Description: 
3 v. ([20], clx, 361, [1] ; [8], 536 ; [8], 537, [1] p.), 7 leaves of plates (1 fold.) : ill. ; 22 cm
Credit: 
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes: 

Signatures: pi², b-c⁴, B-L⁸, B-S⁸, T⁷, U-Z⁸, Aa⁴, Bb² ; pi⁴, B-Ll⁸, Mm⁴ ; pi⁴, B-Ll⁸, Mm⁵.
Preface by Southey credits Cottle as editor.
List of subscribers, v. 1.
Printed music, v. 3, p. 495.
Manuscript text, v. 1 (final page): "unpublished poem of Chatterton" supposedly copied from "Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, May 27th, 1815."

Binding: 
Red morocco, gold-tooled, with dentelles, by Zaehnsdorf.
Provenance: 
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Department: