Type Facsimiles by Hazen (3 results)

Self-wrapper, stapled. Reprinted for private circulation from "Modern Philology" for May, 1947. Nine double-column pages. A Very Good copy.

Reprinted for private circulation from Modern Philology, Vol. XLIV, No. 4, May 1947. Pp. 209-217, printed double column; med. 8vo; self-wrappers, stapled, a trifle soiled and browned; Modern Philology, [Chicago?], 1947. *'A paper read at the English Institute at Columbia in September, 1946, as one of a series of papers on the identification of forgeries. . . .' [Footnote, p. 209]. 'The great innovation that Wise made, obvious though it seems now, was almost a pioneering effort in printing: he began to print type-facsimiles of non-existent originals; that is, of what he imagined the original would have looked like had it been printed by the author at the time Wise pretended it had been printed. This interesting modification of the type-facsimile routine offered two great advantages: (1) the potential sale was limited only by the total number of collectors, since nobody could own the original; (2) there was now no danger that anybody would compare Wise's facsimile with an original, since the original had never existed. It was therefore necessary for bibliographers to develop new techniques to identify the forgeries (as Carter and Pollard did so brilliantly), since the customary method of comparison was no longer valid' [p. 217].…

(Chicago), 1947, in-8, copertina fittizia, pp. (9). Estratto con timbretto d'appartenenza. (Arrossatura al margine int.).