[Thomas Chatterton], POEMS, SUPPOSEDTO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AT BRISTOL, BY THOMAS ROWLEY AND OTHERS IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY (London: Thomas Payne & Son, 1777) 1st ed., 2nd issue (leaf "C4," p. xxii, replaced, with corrected wording for the Advertisement); three-quarter calf of later 19th century, marbled boards, rebacked. Chatterton, a teen-aged prodigy, passed off these poems as medieval compositions, though the stated author was his own fiction, fooling a number of scholars. He died, apparently a suicide, at the age of 17, in 1770, but Wordsworth, Keats, and other Romantic poets later regarded him as one of their own.

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