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Barker, Nicolas FORM AND MEANING IN THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK
Selected Essays (London) British Library 2003 8vo cloth, dust jacket (iv), xiii, (i), 514 pages
Part of the British Library Studies in the History of the Book series. A collection of essays spanning forty years about books and texts, typography and early printing, history of the book, forgery, books and people, bookselling, and libraries. Introduction by Alan Bell. Includes some illustrations. Very minor shelf wear on book and dust jacket.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 92066

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(Chatterton, Thomas) Ingram, John H. THE TRUE CHATTERTON, A NEW STUDY FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.
London T. Fisher Unwin 1910 thick 8vo. cloth. 344, (4) pages.
First edition. A biography of Thomas Chatterton, the young man from Bristol who forged a number of documents and invented a series of ancient manuscripts attributed to one Friar Rowley. Upon eventual discovery, he killed himself at the age of 17. His work was so good in its own right that he has been acclaimed a genius by Byron, Shelley, Coleridge and others. Spine faded. Ink inscription (now written over) on free endpaper. Inside hinges cracked.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 29867

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(Chatterton, Thomas) Russell, Charles Edward THOMAS CHATTERTON, THE MARVELOUS BOY, THE STORY OF A STRANGE LIFE, 1752-1770.
New York Moffat, Yard & Company 1908 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. xvii+(i), 289+(1) pages
First edition. Study of the poet from Bristol who drank arsenic after rejection of his poem by Town and Country Magazine, and was buried in a pauper's grave at the age of eighteen. Accused by some contemporaries, such as Horace Walpole, of being a literary forger, his work is now acknowledged to be genuine and of a high order of imaginative power and lyric beauty. With eight illustrations. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 114409

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(Collier, John Payne) Ganzel, Dewey. FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES, THE CAREER OF JOHN PAYNE COLLIER.
Oxford Oxford University Press 1982 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiii, 454 pages.
First edition. The newly researched story of Collier's rise as a noted scholar, to his fall as a result of his alleged forgery attempts. Illustrated with photographs.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 34303

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Collier, John Payne. NOTES AND EMENDATIONS TO THE TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS FROM EARLY MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS IN A COPY OF THE FOLIO, 1632, IN THE POSSESSION OF J. PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ. F.S.A.
New York Burt Franklin (1970) 8vo. cloth. 541+(1) pages.
Reprint of the 1853 first edition. Contains Collier's notes to all 36 plays in the second folio of the collected works of William Shakespeare. The notes referred to were actually fabrications by Collier himself which led to his humilation when discovered.
Price: $ 22.00 other currencies Order nr. 99165

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Collins, John THE TWO FORGERS, A BIOGRAPHY OF HARRY BUXTON FORMAN & THOMAS JAMES WISE.
(New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books) and (Aldershot): Scolar Press (1992) 8vo. quarter morocco. xiv, 317, x, (iv), followed by a 7 page pamphlet and a 2 page colophon.
First edition, one of 57 special numbered and signed copies (50 for sale) bound thus and containing additional material and available exclusively from Oak Knoll and Maggs. In an introductory note John Collins describes the additional material in this special edition as follows: (1)The life of Alfred Forman by his brother, written in 1926 but hitherto unpublished. In 1973 (Quartich Catalogue 926) Graham Pollard christened Alfred Forman the `third conspirator'. This was on the basis of his initials on the proofs of two chimerical wrappers for Morris pamphlets. Later that year, staying at Waddesdon with Graham, I upbraided him and suggested that initials on two proofs of a wrapper were an uncommonly slender thread on which to convict. Graham agreed and I think we must remove Alfred from his position as third man. (2)Alfred's previously printed sonnet AT BROWNING'S GRAVE 1899. This is without imprint: who printed it? There was a copy in the Forman sale (Sotheby's 10 April 1972, lot 200: £35) described as printed on John Dickinson paper while the B.M. copy was cited as one of five on Whatman. Our copies have only the watermark and seem therefore to be a third variant. Sold with the 1972 lot was a letter from Alfred to his nephew Maurice stating of the leaflet, `It is very scarce indeed and I have only 2 copies that I know of...'. The present bundle comprised 66 copies, and each one is meticulously costed in pencil by Maggs. (3)A colophon claiming a limitation of 50 copies, perhaps from the Browning bibliography of 1897. The fact that 64 copies were in the bundle may be thought to throw some doubt on the limitation.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 34885

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Erdman, David V. and Ephim G. Fogel (editors) EVIDENCE FOR AUTHORSHIP. ESSAYS ON PROBLEMS OF ATTRIBUTION WITH AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECTED READINGS.
Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press (1966) tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 559 pages.
pFirst edition. Examines all the major types of evidence for authorship and offers discussions of attribution over the entire range of English and American literature. Includes essays by leading scholars and a comprehensive annotated bibliography. Jacket is price clipped.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 21098

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HELL UPON EARTH OR THE TOWN IN AN UPROAR: OCCASIONED BY THE LATE HORRIBLE SCENES OF FORGERY, PERJURY, STREET-ROBBERY, MURDER, SODOMY, AND OTHER SHOCKING IMPIETIES. . . .
London for J. Roberts and A. Dodd 1729 12mo. contemporary fulll leather, title gilt-stamped on spine, all edges gilt (ii), 62 pages
First edition. (Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II). A graphic account of all kinds of crime and "other shocking impieties" in London at the time of publication. The 18th century was a time of rapid growth in London, and this account detailed some of the less favorable consequences. Bookplate on front pastedown from the library of collector F. Grant, dated 1880, and bookplate on back free endpaper that of Clarence S. Bemes. Gilt-stamped title on spine fading. Boards cracked along spine. Front board detached. Rear hinge cracked.
Price: $ 1,950.00 other currencies Order nr. 116307

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(Ireland, William) Haraszti, Zoltan THE SHAKESPEARE FORGERIES OF WILLIAM HENRY IRELAND, THE STORY OF A FAMOUS LITERARY FRAUD.
Boston Trustees of the Public Library 1934 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 22 pages.
Offprint from the November 1934 edition of MORE BOOKS, the BULLETIN OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. Covers age darkened along edge.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 43623

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(Ireland, William Henry) Grebanier, Bernard THE GREAT SHAKESPEARE FORGERY.
London Heineman (1966) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 308 pages.
First English edition. The interesting story of William Henry Ireland, the English forger of Shakespeare.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 88029

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(Ireland, William Henry) Hyde, Mary Crapo SHAKESPEARE, JR.
Philadelphia (privately printed) 1946 8vo. stiff paper wrappers pp. 85-96.
Reprinted from To Doctor R. Mary Hyde writes about the Shakespeare forger, William Henry Ireland and bases her talk on manuscript material in the possession of Rosenbach.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 77156

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Ireland, William Henry MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS AND LEGAL INSTRUMENTS UNDER THE HAND AND SEAL OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ... FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS.
London Printed by Cooper and Graham for Mr. Egerton Whtehall (et al.) 1796 8vo. later half leather over marbled paper-covered boards, top edge gilt. Foldout frontispiece; (xix), (31), 156, 7 pages.
Second edition preceded by the Large Paper printing of 1795 which was limited to only 368 copies. Ireland revealed his sensational group of original Shakespeare manuscripts for the first time in this book. It was later proved that he had forger all this material and had deceived many of the well known scholars of his day. Covers rubbed. Light foxing. Pagination error, pp. 153-4 misnumbered 155-6, in the King Lear text omitted but text complete.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 3243

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (editors) AGAINST THE LAW: CRIME, SHARP PRACTICE AND THE CONTROL OF PRINT.
(New Castle and London) Oak Knoll Press & The British Library 2004 8vo. cloth-covered boards, dust jacket. 200 pages
Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. Eight chapters on different aspects of "sharp practices" in the book world. Includes Christopher de Hamel on "Book Thefts in the Middle Ages," Adri K. Offenberg on "The Censorship of Hebrew Books in Sixteenth-Century Italy," Alastair J. Mann on "Some Property is Theft: copyright law and illegal activity in early modern Scotland," Maureen Bell on "Offensive Behaviour in the English Book Trade, 1641-1700," Helen Berry on "Crimes of Conscience: the last will and testament of John Dunton,", Nicholas Pickwoad on "The History of the False Raised Band,", Anthony Hobson on "Guglielmo Libri," and Bill Bell on "Bound for Botany Bay; or, what did the nineteenth-century convict read?" Illustrated and with an index. Sales Rights: Worldwide except in the UK; Available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 78557

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(Shakespeare, William) Smith, Robert Metcalf THE SHAKESPEARE FOLIOS AND THE FORGERIES OF SHAKESPEARE'S HANDWRITING.
Lehigh Lehigh University Publications 1927 March 1 1927, 8vo., paper wrappers. 47 pages.
With a number of illustrations. The forgeries were executed by William Henry Ireland.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 14639

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(Wise, Thomas J.) Carter, John and Graham Pollard AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH CENTURY PAMPHLETS.
New York Haskell House 1971 8vo. cloth. xii, 400 pages.
Reprint of first edition. A classic piece of literary detective work in which the authors expose Thomas J. Wise as a forger by their study of type specimens, paper and study of the text of various 19th century pamphlets.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 17081

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(Wise, Thomas J.) Carter, John and Graham Pollard AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH CENTURY PAMPHLETS.
London Constable & Co. 1934 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. xii, 400 pages.
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.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 98573

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(Wise, Thomas J.) Carter, John and Graham Pollard AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH CENTURY PAMPHLETS.
London Constable & Co. 1934 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. xii, 400 pages.
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. A landmark book in the history of literary forgery. This copy has been signed by both authors on the half-title. Very rare to find a copy signed by both authors. Bookplate of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (stamped HBL Withdrawn). Jacket is worn with piece of front cover and top of spine missing.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 105883

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(Wise, Thomas J.) Carter, John and Graham Pollard AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH CENTURY PAMPHLETS.
London Constable & Co. 1934 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. xii, 400 pages.
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. A landmark book in the history of literary forgery. This copy has been inscribed by both authors on the free endpaper. Very rare to find a copy signed by both authors. Carter has written in his typical red ink "Unread, I notice, but I appreciate the goodwill. John Carter, 7 dec 70" and Pollard has added in blue ink beneath Carter's inscription "Signature authenicated by Graham Pollard, 29 Nov. 1973." With the bookplate of the noted collector, Abel Berland. Jacket rubbed along spine and hinges but rather well preserved.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 109421

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(Wise, Thomas J.) Carter, John and Graham Pollard THE MYSTERY OF `THE DEATH OF BALDER'.
Oxford Distributed for the authors by B.H. Blackwell Ltd. 1969 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 21 pages.
Limited to 200 copies. Volume three of the "Working Papers" issued by Carter and Pollard for a second edition of their Enquiry. Small spot at top of front cover.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 36000

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(Wise, Thomas J.) CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF WISEIANA FORMED BY SIR MAURICE PARISER, TOGETHER WITH PROPERTIES OF JOHN CARTER, GRAHAM POLLARD AND MRS. R. W. CHAPMAN.
London Sotheby & Co. 1967 8vo. paper wrappers. 139 pages.
An essential tool for the student of Thomas Wise and his cohorts. Lots 456 and 370 reproduces parts of letters from Newton to Wise. Some notes in pencil.
Price: $ 16.00 other currencies Order nr. 7872

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(Wise, Thomas J.) CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF WISEIANA FORMED BY SIR MAURICE PARISER, TOGETHER WITH PROPERTIES OF JOHN CARTER, GRAHAM POLLARD AND MRS. R. W. CHAPMAN.
London Sotheby & Co. 1967 8vo. paper wrappers. 139 pages.
An essential tool for the student of Thomas Wise and his cohorts. Lots 456 and 370 reproduces parts of letters from Newton to Wise. Pieces of front cover cut away.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 116201

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(Wise, Thomas J.) Collins, John TWO FORGERS, A BIOGRAPHY OF HARRY BUXTON FORMAN & THOMAS JAMES WISE
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books (1992) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 317 pages.
First edition. The book forgery of Thomas James Wise, disclosed in 1934 in John Carter and Graham Pollard's An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, is perhaps the most notorious literary scandal of this century. Wise, a bibliographer and book collector with the highest international reputation, was revealed to be the perpetrator of a stream of forgeries of minor works by major nineteenth-century authors which had appeared on the market from the 1880s onwards.
The sensational exposure of Wise led to further discoveries, most notably that he had acted not alone but in collusion with Harry Buxton Forman, the distinguished editor of Keats and Shelley. The extent of the crime was clearly wider and more complicated than had been supposed when the Enquiry was first published. Carter and Pollard were steadily compiling matter for a new edition of the book right up to their deaths in the mid-1970s. Their material passed to Nicolas Barker who, with John Collins, undertook to complete the work. They, in turn, discovered a mass of new facts: the forgeries began earlier than suspected, the problems of Tennyson's The New Timon and R. L. Stevenson's Ticonderoga were solved and, for the first time, an attempt was made to reconstruct the crime. There was, however, still more work to be done. In their prologue to A Sequel to An Enquiry, Barker and Collins concluded by stating "Finally, we have tried, well knowing that there is more to be discovered and much that may never be discoverable, to reconstruct the crime and the part each man played in it." Now, John Collins has written the final chapter in this account of one of the strangest and subtlest literary frauds ever attempted. The Two Forgers provides a detailed analysis of the lives and careers of Wise and Forman. It explains how they joined forces, traces the course of their conspiracy and provides a step-by-step account of the sensational unmasking of the plot. The biographical nature of this scholarly work provides a fresh new approach to these forgeries and is more readable than the detailed, empirical-facts approach of An Enquiry and A Sequel to An Enquiry. In addition, The Two Forgers is profusely illustrated throughout and contains more of the correspondence between Wise and Forman, thereby supplementing the letters reproduced in A Sequel. SALES RIGHTS: Available outside the UK & Europe from Oak Knoll Books.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 32980

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(Wise, Thomas J.) Collins, John TWO FORGERS, A BIOGRAPHY OF HARRY BUXTON FORMAN & THOMAS JAMES WISE
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books (1992) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 317 pages.
First edition. The book forgery of Thomas James Wise, disclosed in 1934 in John Carter and Graham Pollard's An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, is perhaps the most notorious literary scandal of this century. Wise, a bibliographer and book collector with the highest international reputation, was revealed to be the perpetrator of a stream of forgeries of minor works by major nineteenth-century authors which had appeared on the market from the 1880s onwards.
The sensational exposure of Wise led to further discoveries, most notably that he had acted not alone but in collusion with Harry Buxton Forman, the distinguished editor of Keats and Shelley. The extent of the crime was clearly wider and more complicated than had been supposed when the Enquiry was first published. Carter and Pollard were steadily compiling matter for a new edition of the book right up to their deaths in the mid-1970s. Their material passed to Nicolas Barker who, with John Collins, undertook to complete the work. They, in turn, discovered a mass of new facts: the forgeries began earlier than suspected, the problems of Tennyson's The New Timon and R. L. Stevenson's Ticonderoga were solved and, for the first time, an attempt was made to reconstruct the crime. There was, however, still more work to be done. In their prologue to A Sequel to An Enquiry, Barker and Collins concluded by stating "Finally, we have tried, well knowing that there is more to be discovered and much that may never be discoverable, to reconstruct the crime and the part each man played in it." Now, John Collins has written the final chapter in this account of one of the strangest and subtlest literary frauds ever attempted. The Two Forgers provides a detailed analysis of the lives and careers of Wise and Forman. It explains how they joined forces, traces the course of their conspiracy and provides a step-by-step account of the sensational unmasking of the plot. The biographical nature of this scholarly work provides a fresh new approach to these forgeries and is more readable than the detailed, empirical-facts approach of An Enquiry and A Sequel to An Enquiry. In addition, The Two Forgers is profusely illustrated throughout and contains more of the correspondence between Wise and Forman, thereby supplementing the letters reproduced in A Sequel. Indentation mark on front cover of jacket protruding onto cloth.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 105672

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Wise, Thomas J. (editor) PAULINE; A FRAGMENT OF A CONFESSION BY ROBERT BROWNING. A REPRINT OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF 1833.
London Richard Clay and Sons 1886 8vo. original boards. xii, 71, (3) pages.
First edition thus, limited to 400 copies. (Todd 109a). Although a seemingly above-board reprint edition, Wise's treatment of Browning's "Pauline" was one of his first forays into the world of facsimiles and, through his connection to Richard Clay and Sons, helped him lay the groundwork for future fabrications. Spine covering lacking (part loosely inserted in book). With the bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 10910

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(Wise, Thomas J.) FACSIMILES & FORGERIES; A GUIDE TO A TIMELY EXHIBITION IN THE WILLIAM l. CLEMENTS LIBRARY.
Ann Arbor Ann Arbor Press 1934 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 14 pages.
Description of forgeries extending from Noah to General Grant. Exhibition was mounted in conjunction with the release of Carter and Pollard's book on Wise. Much information on Wise's forgeries. Slight fading along edges of covers.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 10902

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