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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, ...
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 34885

Table of contents

                CONTENTS 

List of Illustrations                vii 
Acknowledgements                    xiii 
Prologue                               1 
1 Forman's childhood                   5 
2 Forman at the Post Office           15 
3 Forman in London                    31 
4 Keats and Shelley                   44 
5 Wise's childhood                    57 
6 The two forgers meet                73 
7 The forgeries begin                 81 
8 Literary and commercial life        97 
9 The Reading Sonnets                105 
10 Suspicion aroused                 123 
11 Ill-gotten gains                  150 
12 Wise on the commodity market      167 
13 Buying up 'The Pines'             179 
14 Forman and his family             192 
15 Forman's death                    200 
16 Wise carries on                   207 
17 Wise in retirement                223 
18 The exposure                      241 
19 Wise at bay                       253 
20 Wise's death                      265 
Epilogue: The forgeries in context   278 
Notes                                285 
Appendix: The correspondence         295 
Index                                305 


 


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