London: Dawsons, 1966. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxii, 316 pages. Reprint of the 1914 first edition. Fine in lightly faded jacket. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF GEORGE HENRY BORROW
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 14581
Two volumes.
Folkestone: Dawson of Pall Mall, 1963. small 4to. cloth, dust jackets. xxvii,139; xxxii,131 pages. Two volumes. Second reprint edition, originally published in 1933. Jackets faded along spine, else near fine. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN VERSE AND PROSE...BYRON
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 1075
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1928. small 4to. polished cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. xxvii, 144, (2) pages. Limited to 200 copies. (Todd 117b). With numerous plates printed on glossary paper bound-in. Lenghty introduction by Ethel Colburn Mayne. (d. 1941 - biographer, novelist, and translator who also wrote for the Yellow Book under the pseudonym Francis Huntley. She published on Browning, reviewed widely, wrote a well-known biography of Byron, and published a number of..... READ MORE about A BYRON LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY GEORGE GORDON...
Price: $180.00 Order nr. 50060
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1928. small 4to. polished cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. xxvii, 144, (2) pages. Limited to 200 copies. (Todd 117b). With numerous plates printed on glossy paper bound-in. Lengthy introduction by Ethel Colburn Mayne. (d. 1941) She was a biographer, novelist, and translator who also wrote for the Yellow Book under the pseudonym Francis Huntley. She published on Browning, reviewed widely, wrote a well-known biography of Byron, and published a...... READ MORE about A BYRON LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY GEORGE GORDON...
Price: $168.00 Order nr. 92880
2 volumes.
London: Bibliographical Society, 1913, 1919. small 4to. and square 8vo. later cloth and stiff paper wrappers. xii, 316 pages with 13 illustrations; 38, (2) pages. 2 volumes. First editions. (Todd 122b and 123b). First volume has been rebound and has the bookplate of the Club of Odd Volumes. Top corners bumped with some soiling to the spine and boards. Second volume has a tape repaired spine, the bottom corner is missing from the rear wrapper..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. With COLERIDGEIANA,...
Price: $120.00 Order nr. 24385
Oxford, England: Frederick Hall at the Clarendon Press, 1924. Folio. marbled paper wrappers, paper cover label. (iv), 8 pages. Reprint edition limited to 550 copies, of which 500 were available for sale. Wrappers lightly chipped, else near fine. A facsimile reprint of T. J. Wise's uncut copy of the 1747 R. Dodsley printing of 1747. Printed by Frederick Hall on laid paper at the Clarenden Press. READ MORE about AN ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE, 1747
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 138025
Newark, DE: University of Delaware, 1999. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), xii, 88 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Exhibition catalogue for the Special Collections Department of the Hugh M. Morris Library at the University of Delaware. Describes 90 works in chronological order under 10 sections including "General Material on Forgery," "George Psalmanazar, the Celebrated Native of Formosa," "James Macpherson and the Ossian Poems," etc. An appendix contains a checklist of Thomas J. Wise letters..... READ MORE about FORGING A COLLECTION, THE FRANK W. TOBER COLLECTION
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 56747
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1959. 6.5 x 9.75 inches. Paperback. 50 pages. This text contains within the details of Thomas J. Wise's theft of a multitude of pages from various plays and dramas that were held at several prestigious libraries and museums across England. These locations include the British Museum, the Ashley Library and the Wrenn Library at Cambridge. Wise's theft of numerous pages from more than 80 different plays and dramas has totaled into..... READ MORE about THOMAS J. WISE AND THE PRE-RESTORATION DRAMA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 104185
(Toronto, Canada): Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 79+(1) pages. Produced to celebrate and honour the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Pre-Conference held in Toronto 17 to 20 June 2003, on the theme "TRUE/FALSE: Facsimiles, Fakes, Forgeries, and Issues of Authenticity in Special Collections" the exhibition covers various aspects of literary forgery (and one 'real' forgery) from Richard Bentley and the Epistles of Phalaris to the inventions of..... READ MORE about LITERARY FORGERIES AND MYSTIFICATIONS: AN EXHIBITION
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 126999
Folkestone: Dawsons, 1971. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 426 pages. Reprint of the 1919 first edition. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Price: $28.00 Order nr. 6757
London: Bibliographical Society, 1919. small 4to. cloth-backed boards. xxiv, 426 pages. First edition. (Todd 178b). Some cover wear. Inner hinges reinforced and strengthened. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Price: $32.00 Order nr. 71787
Edited by Carol Meyerson and Evert Volkersz.
Rockville Centre: Long Island Book Collectors, 1993. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 158 pages. Edited by Carol Meyerson and Evert Volkersz. Divided into four sections each containing a number of articles. The first section gives a history of the club and contains biography of various departed members. The second section has seven essays on book collecting; the third section is on collecting illustrated books and the fourth section deals with specialty book collecting. With articles..... READ MORE about JOURNAL OF THE LONG ISLAND BOOK COLLECTORS, TWENTY FIVE YEARS, 1966-1991, NO. 5
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 39013
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 7.125 x 9.25 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 216 pages. "This new study offers an insight into his work, the personality that drove his long career, and the fascinating, highly-charged social and political backgrounds against which that career was played out." - William Morris Society Magazine, Spring 2020 "Correspondence forms forms the backbone of Loxley's recent book Emery Walker: Arts, crafts and a world in motion, and builds a...... READ MORE about EMERY WALKER: ARTS, CRAFTS, AND A WORLD IN MOTION
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 133470
London: British Museum, 1971. small 4to. stiff decorated paper wrappers. 64 pages and 14 full-page plates. Preface by K.B. Gardner. An exhibition catalogue covering all facets of Morison's life. Includes a section on his part in exposing Thomas J. Wise. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON, A PORTRAIT
Price: $6.40 Order nr. 18299
With a New Introduction by K.I.D. Maslen.
Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1973. small 4to. cloth. 113 pages. With a New Introduction by K.I.D. Maslen. Reprint of the first edition. A fine copy. Illustrated. READ MORE about A POPE LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE OF PLAYS, POEMS, AND PROSE WRITINGS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 7406
With a list of the more important Ruskiniana. Two volumes.
Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1974. small 4to. cloth, dust jackets. xxvii, 329; 263 pages. With a list of the more important Ruskiniana. Two volumes. Second reprint edition. Fine in fine jackets. READ MORE about COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF JOHN RUSKIN L.L.D
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 7501
2 volumes.
London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1966. tall 8vo. later cloth spines with original paper-covered boards. xvi,507,(3); xvi,407,(3) pages. 2 volumes. First edition. The covers are spotted and stained and have been repacked with cloth with the spine of volume two laid down on the cloth. Lacks pages 61-74. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
Price: $28.00 Order nr. 72347
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1929. small 4to. red polished cloth, beveled edges, top edge gilt, others uncut. xxiii, 82, (2) pages. First edition, limited to only 120 copies (Todd 67b). Spine age-darkened, small dampstains to hinges and spine, soiling to boards, covers very lightly faded, foxing to preliminary pages. Else a near fine copy. .A collection of first editions by the Brontë family. Five page introduction by C.W. Hatfield followed by the bibliography. Many..... READ MORE about A BRONTE LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY THE MEMBERS...
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 71425
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1939). 8vo. cloth. xvi, 315 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Exlibris copy with markings. A biography of this literary forger. READ MORE about FORGING AHEAD, THE TRUE STORY OF THE UPWARD PROGRESS OF THOMAS JAMES WISE, PRINCE OF BOOK...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 11057
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1944). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 591, xvi pages. First edition. Ratchford's book proved beyond doubt the guilt of Thomas J. Wise as a literary forger and implicated the distinguished men of letters, H. Buxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse and thus becomes a necessary supplement to Carter and Pollard's An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets. Jacket chipped with pieces missing along edges and is price clipped..... READ MORE about LETTERS OF THOMAS J. WISE TO JOHN HENRY WRENN A FURTHER INQUIRY INTO THE GUILT OF CERTAIN...
Price: $36.00 Order nr. 32496
1945. 8vo. paper wrappers. pp.3-32. An article in The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas, Vol.1, No.4. Fall 1945. A subsequent part came out later. Front cover detached. READ MORE about "A REVIEW OF REVIEWS. PART I"
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 94195
In The Texas Quarterly, Winter, 1959, Volume II, No.4
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1959. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 195, (2), 128 pages. In The Texas Quarterly, Winter, 1959, Volume II, No.4. The Studies consist of a 128 page supplement at the end of the Quarterly. A near fine copy. With essays by John Carter, Graham Pollard and a bibliography of Wise's work by William Todd. This bibliography includes forgeries, his own writings and piracies. The front cover pictures the Wrenn room. READ MORE about THOMAS J. WISE, CENTENARY STUDIES
Price: $24.00 Order nr. 7897
Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1971. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 268 pages. Reprint of 1916 edition. Near fine. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 7869
(Mansfield Centre: Martino Fine Books, n.d. but 1999). 8vo. cloth. xvi, 268 pages. Reprint of limited 1916 edition privately printed by Wise. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 55016
