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.
London: Society of Arts, 1819. 8vo. modern paper wrappers with paper cover and spine labels. (iv), 72 pages. First edition (Levis, p.468; Bridson & Wakeman B48; Goldsmith 22503; Kress C. 414). All six plates present. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. An important comment on the prevention of forgery. Contains a number of articles including: one by T.C. Hansard who proposed the use of Diamond type arranged in patterns (including an example plate); by T....
