Wise Forgeries (5 results)

Portrait frontispiece and illustrations in text. Green printed wrappers.A very good to fine copy with the prices realised loosely inserted as well as being annotated beside the text. A very good bright copy.

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A follow-up pamphlet to Carter & Pollard's famous expose of the forgeries of Thomas James Wise. 95 pages. Original printed slightly oversized wrappers, as issued. Bookplate of the private Athenaeum Library Liverpool on the inside cover, with de-accessioned stamp. Very clean throughout. 12.5 x 19 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Blue wrappers, a little faded at the spine. Near fine. On various occasions between 1893 and 1932 he presented books to the Library. In the list which follows only twelve of the items were acquired by purchase; all the others were given by Wise. In addition to some of the forgeries and his privately printed books, his donations included a number of 18th century books and two of the 17th century.

Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by A. Colish on Fabriano paper. 26 plates, some folding, some in red and black. Dark blue cloth stamped with the University of Texas seal, top edg gilt. Slipcase (a little damaged) and prospectus. Near fine copy. Carter & Pollard's 'An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets" had demonstrated the involvement of Thomas James Wise in the creation of forged or pirated works. However, they lacked evidence to establish the involvement of any co-forger. That finally appeared in Ratchford's 'Between the Lines', which published the now famous 'Pforzheimer document' - an exchange of correspondence between Wise and Harry Buxton Forman.

One of 300 copies on handmade paper stapled into decorative printed wrappers. Slightly yellowed at the spine. A very good to fine copy of this damning catalogue. Introduction by W.B. todd.