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AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH CENTURY PAMPHLETS.
Carter, John and Graham Pollard

- London : Constable & Co. 1934 - 8vo. - cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. - xii, 400 pages. - Order Nr. 98573 - Price: $ 250.00

First edition. A classic piece of literary detective work in which the authors expose Thomas J. Wise as a forger by their work in type specimens, paper and study of the text of various 19th century pamphlets. Small piece of jacket is chipped away at head of spine. The jacket is price clipped. Well preserved copy.

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