PRESENTATION COPY

SHEPPERLEY, William. Chatterton.

London. Published by the Bowyer Press...and sold by the author on his city stand in Lothbury, [1914]. First edition.

Quarto. 32pp. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Extremities rubbed, creased, and marked. Foxed. Presentation copy, inked ownership inscription to verso of title page: 'Very Sincerely, / William Shepperley / Jan. V. MCMXIV.'

The first edition, in original unsophisticated state, of a verse tribute to controversial poet, and pedlar of literary forgeries, Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770).

£ 125.00 Antiquates Ref: 29029