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THOMAS J. WISE IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH, THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL LITERARY FORGER THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN. Appendix by George Bernard Shaw.
Partington, Wilfred

   

- Folkestone : Dawsons 1974
- 8vo.
- cloth, dust jacket.
- 372 pages.
- Order Nr. 10913
- Price: $ 18.00



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Reprint of the 1974 edition. The first biographical and critical study of Thomas James Wise, who has gained immortality as the perpetrator of the most original and extensive series of forgeries in the British literary annals. Spine of jacket faded.

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Taylor B1. One of 300 copies. This was the first commissioned work done for another institution by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. The printed cover design is repeated on a second sheet of salmon colored paper as a watermark. The catalogue describes 75 landmark books on papermaking and is an excellent "high spot" bibliography of the field. Signed by Henry Morris and presentation from Leonard Schlosser to Ellen Shaffer, librarian of the Free Library.




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