(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

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 98573

(Wise, Thomas J.). Carter, John and Graham Pollard.

AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH CENTURY PAMPHLETS.

London, England: Constable & Co. 1934. 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. xii, 400 pages. First edition. Table of contents, acknowledgments, index. Four black and white plates. 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. Dust jacket is lightly chipped away at head of spine. The jacket... READ MORE

Price: $265.00  other currencies  Order nr. 128575

(Wise, Thomas J.). Carter, John and Graham Pollard.

THE FIRM OF CHARLES OTTLEY, LANDON & CO. FOOTNOTE TO AN ENQUIRY.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948. 12mo. paper wrappers. 95 pages. Carter and Pollard proved in this pamphlet that Wise had forged a number of Swinburne pamphlets which they had been unsure of in their original work. Chipped around edges. READ MORE

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 95142

(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

Price: $495.00  other currencies  Order nr. 106191

(Wise, Thomas J.). Haslam, G.E. (editor).

WISE AFTER THE EVENT A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS RELATING TO THOMAS JAMES WISE DISPLAYED IN AN EXHIBITION IN MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY, SEPTEMBER 1964.

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

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2708

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

THOMAS J. WISE, CENTENARY STUDIES.

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

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 123323