(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. READ MORE about AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH CENTURY PAMPHLETS

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 98573

(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..... READ MORE about ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE...WITH SEQUEL TO AN ENQUIRY With A SEQUEL TO AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE...

Price: $600.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2509

(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. 4 volumes, the complete set. Reprints of first editions of first two titles (same year as first edition) and first editions of second two titles. Includes PRECIS OF PADEN OR THE SOURCES OF `THE NEW TIMON'. (ii), 24 pages. Limited to 200 copies; THE FORGERIES OF TENNYSON'S PLAYS. (ii), 21 pages. Limited to 200 copies; THE MYSTERY OF `THE DEATH OF BALDER'. (ii)..... READ MORE about WORKING PAPERS FOR A SECOND EDITION OF AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH CENTURY...

Price: $300.00  other currencies  Order nr. 18385

(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. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF WISEIANA FORMED BY SIR MAURICE PARISER, TOGETHER WITH...

Price: $16.00  other currencies  Order nr. 7872

(Wise, Thomas J.). Todd, William (editor).

THOMAS J. WISE, CENTENARY STUDIES.

Essays by John Carter, Graham Pollard and William B. Todd.
Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., (1959). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 128 pages. Essays by John Carter, Graham Pollard and William B. Todd. First edition, the Edinburgh issue with a different binding and dust jacket. Contains the best bibliography of the works of Wise. READ MORE about THOMAS J. WISE, CENTENARY STUDIES

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2968