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Dawsons of Pall Mall, Folkestone, 1974 reprint of the 1946 first edition. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. 372 pp, plates. A reprint of the classic biographical and bibliographical account of Wise, which was expanded from the American edition published in 1939 as "Forging Ahead ". Highly readable, well-illustrated and fascinating. "This work, first published in America in 1939, and issued in a revised and extended British edition in 1947, is the first biographical and critical study of the perpetrator of the most original and extensive series of forgeries in British literary history, and as such it remains a standard work for students of bibliography. Wise, a wealthy merchant, was renowned as a bookman, a collector, and as the compiler of a unique group of bibliographies and catalogues. In 1934, towards the close of his brilliant career, it was revealed that over fifty pamphlets by such authors as the Brownings, Swinburne, Kipling and Ruskin whose rarity and importance he had made known, were…
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Thomas J.Wise in the Original Cloth Hardcover - 1974
by Wilfred Partington
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- Title Thomas J.Wise in the Original Cloth
- Author Wilfred Partington
- Binding Hardcover
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- Pages 372 pp, plates
- Publisher Victoria County History, Folkestone
- Date 1974 re
- ISBN 9780712906173
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Dawsons of Pall Mall, Folkestone, 1974 reprint of the 1946 first edition. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm,. 372 pp, plates. A reprint of the classic biographical and bibliographical account of Wise, which was expanded from the American edition published in 1939 as "Forging Ahead ". Highly readable, well-illustrated and fascinating. "This work, first published in America in 1939, and issued in a revised and extended British edition in 1947, is the first biographical and critical study of the perpetrator of the most original and extensive series of forgeries in British literary history, and as such it remains a standard work for students of bibliography. Wise, a wealthy merchant, was renowned as a bookman, a collector, and as the compiler of a unique group of bibliographies and catalogues. In 1934, towards the close of his brilliant career, it was revealed that over fifty pamphlets by such authors as the Brownings, Swinburne, Kipling and Ruskin whose rarity and importance he had made known, were…
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Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1974. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Frontis., 372 pp., illus. With an Appendix by George Bernard Shaw. Reprint of the 1947 edition. Spine faded.
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Thomas J. Wise in the Original Cloth; The Life and Record of the Forger of the Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets
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London: Dawsons of Pall Mall [0-7129-0617-7] 1974, reprint. (Hardcover) 372pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Frontispiece, photographs, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. There is a previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper, the dust jacket spine is faded and has a small chip missing from the top of the dust jacket spine. Biography of Thomas J. Wise. Time Period 19th Century. Appendix by George Bernard Shaw. Locale:. (Biography, Bibliography, Book Collecting, Forgeries).
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