Thomas Wise Centenary Studies Edited (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frontispiece; blue cloth, spine gilt, dust-jacket a little faded along the spine. Occasional light spotting to text. A very good copy. Thomas J. Wise in Perspective: An Address Given at the University of Texas on All Fools Day, 1959; Letters to J. E. Cornish 30 April to 22 August 1894: On Various Morris, Rossetti, Ruskin, and Swinburne Forgeries With Commentary by William B. Todd; Letter to Sir Edmund Gosse 16 February 1897: On a Number of Tennyson Forgeries With Commentary by Graham Pollard; The Case of The Devil's Due: Another Swinburne Pamphlet Condemned as a Forgery; Introduction to the Browning Library, 1929: The master concocts a tale. With commentary by William B. Todd; The Scope for Further Typographical Analysis; A Handlist of Thomas J. Wise.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 8vo (25 cm), 129 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Thomas James Wise (1859 - 1937), collector, bibliographer, and editor, received in his lifetime practically every honor the world of books could bestow. Yet he is chiefly remembered as a forger and a thief. From 1934 to 1957 various inquiries implicate him in the manufacture of more than fifty bogus "pre-first" editions of eminent Victorian authors. The centenary studies review the course of research over the last twenty-five years, designate topics requiring further investigation, and assess new evidence of Wise's operations.