[WALPOLE, Horace.] A letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton, Strawberry-Hill, printed by T. Kirgate, 1779, 8°, FIRST EDITION, half-title with misprint on p.22 corrected in Walpole's hand as usual, contemporary calf (rebacked) [Hazen Strawberry Hill Press 27; Rothschild 2500];and 2 others on Chatterton. (3)

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[WALPOLE, Horace.] A letter to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton, Strawberry-Hill, printed by T. Kirgate, 1779, 8°, FIRST EDITION, half-title with misprint on p.22 corrected in Walpole's hand as usual, contemporary calf (rebacked) [Hazen Strawberry Hill Press 27; Rothschild 2500];and 2 others on Chatterton. (3)

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An answer to the "insult" Walpole had received in Broughton's edition of Chatterton's Works. Limited to 200 copies never officially published, the Letter was reprinted serially in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1782.

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