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

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: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 56747

(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

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: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 71787

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

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  other currencies  Order nr. 133470

Two volumes.
London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1966. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jackets. xvi,507,(3); xvi,407,(3) pages. Two volumes. Reprint of the original edition of 1920. Jackets slightly soiled. Spines of jackets lightly faded. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE OF ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 7679

Eleven volumes.
Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1971. 8vo. small 8vo., cloth. variously paginated. Eleven volumes. Reprint of the first edition which was limited to only 250 sets (Todd 420b). Each volume has an introduction by a famous person in the book world. Profusely illustrated and with full bibliographical descriptions of some of the scarcest books of English literature. Unfortunately included in this collection were the forgeries that Wise had printed himself and elevated to the level..... READ MORE about ASHLEY LIBRARY, A CATALOGUE PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPH LETTERS COLLECTED BY THOMAS...

Price: $550.00  other currencies  Order nr. 17674

Manchester: Libraries Committee, 1964. square 8vo. paper wrappers. xii, 86 pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Contains a two page foreword by John Carter. The majority of the material came from Maurice Pariser's collection. READ MORE about WISE AFTER THE EVENT A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS RELATING TO THOMAS...

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2708

New York: The Scribner Book Store, 1945. small 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers. 30 pages. Catalogue no.131. Part of the top edge of the front cover has been neatly cut away, with some minor soiling along the top edge of the front cover. Staples rusted, else a near fine copy of this scarce pamphlet. Contains an "almost complete set of the late Thomas J. Wise's forgeries." Most of the items came from the library of..... READ MORE about NINETEENTH CENTURY PAMPHLETS WITH AN APPENDIX OF WISEIANA

Price: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 89026

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: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 32496

Printed from the Unpublished Original Manuscript in the Library of John S. Mayfield.
London: Charles Ottley, Landon, & Co., 1950. 4to. cream paper wrappers, stapled, upper wrapper lettered in black. [6]+[2] (colophon with Ashley Library device, verso blank). Printed from the Unpublished Original Manuscript in the Library of John S. Mayfield. Edition strictly limited to about Thirty Copies, printed for Thomas J. Wise. A fine copy. *A hoax, produced in imitation of the so-called 'Gullible Papers' - one of which was also a Swinburne pastiche. This purports to..... READ MORE about A ROUNDEL OF RETREAT

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136974