Landon, Richard.

LITERARY FORGERIES AND MYSTIFICATIONS: AN EXHIBITION.

(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  other currencies  Order nr. 126999

(Byron, Lord). Wise, Thomas J.

A BYRON LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY GEORGE GORDON NOEL, BARON BYRON.

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: $450.00  other currencies  Order nr. 50060

(Coleridge, Samuel Taylor). Wise, Thomas J.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. With COLERIDGEIANA, BEING A SUPPLEMENT TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLERIDGE.

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: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 24385

(Detective Fiction). Potter, Jeremy.

THE DANCE OF DEATH.

New York: Walker and Company, (1969). 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 232 pages. First American edition. An excellent novel about the respectable art dealer, Mr. Rowlandson Jones, who is working on the definitive biography of Thomas Rowlandson. Assitants turn up dead in his study, a Carter and Pollard type is hounding him for allegedily stealing drawing and letters from museums and he is fighting his own imminent death in attempting to complete his manuscript. With overtones..... READ MORE about THE DANCE OF DEATH

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 16126

(Landor, Walter Savage). Wise, Thomas J.

A LANDOR LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

London: Privately printed, 1928. small 4to. red polished cloth with beveled edges, top edge gilt, others uncut. xxiv, 103+(1) pages in addition to approximately 100 plates. "Printed for private circulation only" in an edition of 170 copies on antique paper (Todd 179b). A catalogue raisonné. Divided into the writings of Landor, and Landoriana, with an introduction by Stephen Wheeler. Plates between most of the leaves contain facsimiles of title pages, autograph manuscript material, illustrations, etc...... READ MORE about A LANDOR LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY WALTER...

Price: $135.00  other currencies  Order nr. 71424

(Landor, Walter Savage). Wise, Thomas J. and Stephen Wheeler.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

London: Bibliographical Society, 1919. small 4to. cloth-backed boards. xxiv, 426 pages. First edition. (Todd 178b). Wear at spine ends with part of cloth spine detached along top of front hinge. Free endpaper spotted. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 7870

(Long Island Book Collectors).

JOURNAL OF THE LONG ISLAND BOOK COLLECTORS, TWENTY FIVE YEARS, 1966-1991, NO. 5.

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  other currencies  Order nr. 39013

(Morison, Stanley).

STANLEY MORISON, A PORTRAIT.

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: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 18299

(Swinburne, Algernon Charles). Wise, Thomas J.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.

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: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 72347

(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. 3 volumes (of 4). 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..... READ MORE about WORKING PAPERS FOR A SECOND EDITION OF AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH CENTURY...

Price: $495.00  other currencies  Order nr. 106191

(Wise, Thomas J.). Ratchford, Fannie E.

"A REVIEW OF REVIEWS. PART I"

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: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 94195

(Wise, Thomas J.). Smart, James P.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF JOHN RUSKIN, EDITED BY THOMAS J. WISE.

Part 1, September 1889.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1889. 4to. stapled, original self paper wrappers. 32 pages. Part 1, September 1889. Entries for 13 early Ruskin publications, with different editions, notes, excerpts, etc. Part 1 of a 19-part bibliography compiled by Smart and edited by T.J. Wise. Ruskin was not one of Wise's great successes, but he did produce 6 or 7 Ruskin forgeries, and "legitimized" some of them by planting them in this bibliography, beginning with..... READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF JOHN RUSKIN, EDITED BY THOMAS J. WISE

Price: $64.00  other currencies  Order nr. 53757

(Wordsworth, William). Wise, Thomas J.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

(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  other currencies  Order nr. 55016