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

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

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

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

Essays by John Carter, Graham Pollard and William B. Todd.
Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1959. tall 8vo. cloth. (viii), 128 pages. Essays by John Carter, Graham Pollard and William B. Todd. First edition, second printing. Contains the best bibliography of the works of Wise. Lacks dust jacket. Presentation on front free endpaper "for Douglas Gordon from John Carter, Charlottesville, May Day 61." READ MORE about THOMAS J. WISE, CENTENARY STUDIES

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 123323