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Todd, William B. SWINBURNE MANUSCRIPTS AT TEXAS
N.P. n.p n.d. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (i), 152-163+(1) pages
Article reprinted from The Texas Quarterly, Vol II, No. 3, Autumn 1959. Includes a checklist of the Swinburne manuscripts. Inscribed by Todd on the title page "As indicated in the first note, this was the opening salvo for the Centenary Studies appearing in the next number of TQ. MBT."
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 92353

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Whitehead, John THIS SOLEMN MOCKERY, THE ART OF LITERARY FORGERY
London Arlington Books (1973) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 173 pages.
First edition. Chapters on Wenceslaus Hanka, William Lauder, Thomas Chatterton, James MacPherson, William Ireland, Vrain Lucas, Thomas J. Wise and others. Jacket rubbed.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 10843

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Whitehead, John THIS SOLEMN MOCKERY, THE ART OF LITERARY FORGERY
London Arlington Books (1973) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 173 pages.
First edition. Chapters on Wenceslaus Hanka, William Lauder, Thomas Chatterton, James MacPherson, William Ireland, Vrain Lucas, Thomas J. Wise and others. Jacket rubbed.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 115502

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Whiteman, Maxwell FORGERS & FOOLS. THE STRANGE CAREER OF "BARON" WEISBERG AND THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF DOCUMENTS DESTROYED AND DISBURDENED FROM THE PHILADELPHIA CUSTOM HOUSE.
Typophile Monograph New Series No. 3. New York The Typophiles 1986 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 23+(1) pages.
First edition, limited to 480 copies. Edited by Abe Lerner, President of The Typophiles. Based on a talk given to the Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia and brought to the editor's attention by Henry Morris. It tells of the escapades of manuscript forger, Weisberg.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 21582

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Whiteman, Maxwell FORGERS & FOOLS. THE STRANGE CAREER OF "BARON" WEISBERG AND THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF DOCUMENTS DESTROYED AND DISBURDENED FROM THE PHILADELPHIA CUSTOM HOUSE.
Typophile Monograph New Series No. 3. New York The Typophiles 1986 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 23+(1) pages.
First edition, limited to 480 copies. Edited by Abe Lerner, President of The Typophiles. Based on a talk given to the Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia and brought to the editor's attention by Henry Morris. It tells of the escapades of manuscript forger, Weisberg. Back cover spoted.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 116208

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(Wise, Thomas James) THOMAS JAMES WISE AND GUILDHALL LIBRARY.
London Corporation of London 1970 small 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), 21 pages.
Reprinted, with additions, from "Guildhall Miscellany," 1962 and 1965. A bibliography of items in the Guildhall Library associated in some way with Thomas James Wise. Includes forgeries, piracies and counterfeits, also works destroyed by enemy action in 1940. One of the scarcer pamphlets in this Wise controversy. Cover slightly faded.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 46566

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(Wise, Thomas J.) Barker, Nicolas and John Collins A SEQUEL TO AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN 19TH CENTURY PAMPHLETS.
New Castle Oak Knoll Press and London: The Scolar Press (1992) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 394 pages.
Reprint of the first edition. The forgeries 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. 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 ENQUIRYwas first published. Carter and Pollard were steadily compilling 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 have discovered a mass of new facts.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 56113

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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.
Edited by Nicolas Barker and John Collins. England and New Castle, Delaware, U.S.A. Scolar Press and Oak Knoll Books (1992) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 432 pages.
Reprint of the second edition. In 1934 two young booksellers, John Carter and Graham Pollard, electrified the world of books and book-collecting with an exposure of literary forgery on a grand and systematic scale. From the 1880s there had appeared on the market, through sale rooms or private transaction, a steady stream of `rare' or `early' editions of works by the Brownings, Swinburne, Morris, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Ruskin, Kipling, Rossetti and others. Using their bibliographic skills and their knowledge of paper, type and ink, Carter and Pollard demonstrated that these publications were not what they purported to be. An Enquiryis a masterly detective story, gripping and exhilarating in the irresistible force of its analysis; and it led to the inevitable question - who was responsible for the crime? The two authors thought they knew, and though they did not make the bald accusation in their book they left the reader in no doubt as to who it was - Thomas James Wise, the great bibliographer and book collector, held in the highest regard both in England and America. The furor that attended publication has continued to reverberate to the present day. Spine of jacket is slightly faded.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 33353

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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 ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE...WITH SEQUEL TO AN ENQUIRY With A SEQUEL TO AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE ... THE FORGERIES OF H. BUXTON FORMAN & T.J. WISE RE-EXAMINED. by Nicolas Barker and John Collins. With A NOTE ON TWO POEMS BY ELIZABETH BARRETT AND ROBERT BROWNING (1854)
London The Scolar Press (1983) 8vo. full leather for first two volumes and half leather for third, slipcase. 10,xii,400,11-41; 394; 27 pages.
Limited to 80 numbered copies. The entire set is contained in a slipcase. Out of print on publication. The actual 1854 first edition by the Brownings which is enclosed was used as the model for which Wise and Forman based their forgeries. It, in itself, is becoming rare. This third volume is enclosed in a half leather slipcase which also contains the actual 1854 Browning first edition.
Price: $ 1,200.00 other currencies Order nr. 2509

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(Wise, Thomas J.) Carter, John and Graham Pollard THE FIRM OF CHARLES OTTLEY, LANDON & CO. FOOTNOTE TO AN ENQUIRY.
London Rupert Hart-Davis 1948 12mo. paper wrappers. 95 pages.
Carter and Pollard proved in this pamphlet that Wise had forged a number of Swinburne pamphlets which they had been unsure of in their original work. With the bookplate of Donald & Mary Hyde. Spine faded.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 10903

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(Wise, Thomas J.) Carter, John and Graham Pollard THE FIRM OF CHARLES OTTLEY, LANDON & CO. FOOTNOTE TO AN ENQUIRY.
London Rupert Hart-Davis 1948 12mo. paper wrappers. 95 pages.
Carter and Pollard proved in this pamphlet that Wise had forged a number of Swinburne pamphlets which they had been unsure of in their original work. Loosely inserted is a four page "Corrections & Additions" that was issued in 1967 and is rarely found. This copy once belonged to Wise's bibliography, William Todd and has his signature in ink in the corner of the free endpaper. Chipped along edges.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 50328

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(Wise, Thomas J.) Carter, John and Graham Pollard THE FIRM OF CHARLES OTTLEY, LANDON & CO. FOOTNOTE TO AN ENQUIRY.
London Rupert Hart-Davis 1948 12mo. paper wrappers. 95 pages.
Carter and Pollard proved in this pamphlet that Wise had forged a number of Swinburne pamphlets which they had been unsure of in their original work. Chipped around edges.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 95142

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(Wise, Thomas J.) Carter, John and Graham Pollard GORFIN'S STOCK
Oxford B.H. Blackwell 1970 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 36 pages.
First edition, limited to 400 copies. Working Paper No.4 in the four volume series issued by Carter and Pollard to update their ENQUIRY. This booklet concerns the stock of the bookseller, H.E. Gorfin and the many Wise items he handled. Paperclip mark with stain on first few pages.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 18386

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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.) Carter, John and Graham Pollard WORKING PAPERS FOR A SECOND EDITION OF AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH CENTURY PAMPHLETS.
4 volumes, the complete set. Oxford Privately printed 1967, 1967, 1969, 1970 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii),24; (ii),21; (ii),21; (ii),36 pages.
First editions of all parts. Includes Precis of Paden Or the Sources of `The New Timon.' Limited to 140 copies; The Forgeries of Tennyson's Plays. Limited to 140 copies; The Mystery of 'The Death of Balder.' Limited to 200 copies; Gorfin's Stock. Limited to 400 copies. Scarce as a set, especially in first editions. Cover of volume 2 shows spotting.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 58439

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(Wise, Thomas J.) Carter, John and Graham Pollard WORKING PAPERS FOR A SECOND EDITION OF AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH CENTURY PAMPHLETS.
3 volumes (of 4) Oxford Privately printed 1967, 1969, 1970 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii),21+(1); (ii),21; (ii),36 pages.
First editions of all parts. Includes 2. THE FORGERIES OF TENNYSON'S PLAYS. (ii), 21 pages. Limited to 140 copies; 3. THE MYSTERY OF `THE DEATH OF BALDER'. (ii), 21 pages. Limited to 200 copies; four. GORFIN'S STOCK. (ii), 36 pages. Limited to 400 copies. This set once belonged to Wise's bibliographer, William Todd. No. two contains a loosely inserted "Compliments" card stating that it was "Sent at the request of John Carter." No. three has Todd's initials in the corner of the cover, a loosely inserted photocopy of a review of this title written by Todd and has pencil notes throughout. No. 4 is also initialed by Todd, has a loosely inserted photocopy of a review of this title written by Todd and has pencil notes throughout.
Price: $ 495.00 other currencies Order nr. 106191

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(Wise, Thomas J.) A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS FROM THE LIBRARY OF MAURICE BUXTON FORMAN.
With an Introduction by Graham Pollard. London Bernard Quaritch 1973 8vo. paper wrappers. 37 pages and with an index.
Catalogue no. 926 issued by this bookseller and an important step in establishing Buxton Forman's guilt along with Wise in the forgery scandal.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 2906

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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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