8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [2], 125 (p. 122 misnumbered 121), [1], f. [1] (blank). Signatures: \u03c01 A-P\u2074 Q\u2074 (-Q4). Modern boards. Signature of John Buckland on flyleaf.
In 1782, spurred by Milles\u2019s imposing fourth edition (see Bib# 4103366/Fr# 418 in this collection), and Jacob Bryant\u2019s Observations upon the Poems of Thomas Rowley, in which the Authenticity of those Poems is Ascertained (1781, see Bib# 712041/Fr# 434), the scholarly and pseudo-scholarly world saw either the need for a negative consensus on the \u201cRowley\u201d poems forged by Thomas Chatterton, or the opportunity for further mischief. Tyrwhitt, who had already capitulated to his own better judgement in an \u2018Appendix\u2019 to the 1778 third edition (\u2018the poems attributed to Rowley [...] were written, not by any ancient author, but entirely by Thomas Chatterton,\u2019 see Bib# 4103365/Fr# 417 in this collection), confirmed his stance in his \u2018A vindication of the appendix to the poems\u2019 (see Bib# 4103383/Fr# 435) while Thomas Warton added corroborative details in the present work.
See also ESTC, T32726; R. Alston, A bibliography of the English language from the invention of printing to the year 1800. Leeds, 1973, vol. III, p. 58.
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