A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Henry Wrenn compiled by Harold B. Wrenn Edited by Thomas J. Wise by (Wrenn Library) Wise, Thomas J., Editor - 1920

New York, NY: A M S Press, Incorporated. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0404115071 . reprint of 1886 edition .

Murray, 1933-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Hardback. First English edition, 1933. Original green cloth, gilt. Very good bright copy. Edited by the notorious forger, Thomas J. Wise.

Haskell House, 1982-02. Hardcover. Good.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned, usual library stamps and . markings, part of jacket flap glued to front free endpaper.. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth binding. Index, notes, list of illustrations. Thomas J. Wise was a noted literary forger and was unmasked by John A. Carter of ABC for Book Collectors fame a few years before Wise's demise. He had been a member of the Browning Society which gave him access to the author and soon became a friend and according to Hood's introduction in this volume a "central treasurer of Browning lore, the untiring helper of Browning biographers and scholars. The factual resources of his growing store of letters from the poet to various correspondents have never been exhausted" (p. xiii). One can understand that forging these kinds of literary documents would make for a seemingly unending supply. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 389 pages .

Boston, Massachusetts: The Bibliophile Society, 1912. Fine condition in a Good unprinted (translucent) dust jacket. The jacket has one 4.5 inch closed tear. Sharp corners. No cover fraying. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp and creamy white. No yellowing. No foxing. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. First Edition. 1912. First appearance in print of seven BORDER BALLADS that were left unpublished by Swinburne at the time of his death. Illustrated with an engraved title page and five (5) document facsimiles in Swinburne's hand. Limited to 479 copies. Edited by Thomas J. Wise (this is NOT one of his many literary forgeries). See Todd 336. Top edge gilt. Bound in the original brown cloth and white parchment spine with bright gilt-stamped title. Complete with scarce dust jacket.. First Edition, Limited 479 copies. Hardcover. Fine condition/Good dust jacket. 8vo. 87pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Boston, Massachusetts: The Bibliophile Society, 1912. Limited Edition, 1/477 Copies. Hardcover. Octavo, 87 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine is white with gilt lettering. Housed in orange cloth slipcase, and secondary orange cloth slip case. Outer slip case shows rubbing to front and back, ex-library ink stamp on head edge of front, rubbing to tail edge. Outer slip case shows rubbing to fore and head edge, age toning to head edge, sunning and rubbing to spine, minor tearing to headcap and tail. Inner slip case shows minor rubbing to head, fore, and tail edge, rubbing to spine, headcap, and tail. Quarter bound in white cloth with orange cloth boards. Board shows minor rubbing to hinges and spine, minor bumping to headcap and tail. Textblock shows gilted head edge, deckled fore and tail edges, and moderate foxing spots. RWO Consignment. 1371275. Special Collections.

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1959. Essays by John Carter, Graham Pollard, William B. Todd. Pp. [x]+130(last colophon, verso blank), frontispiece portrait, index; med. 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, bottom fore-corner of boards faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, silverfished, edges and backstrip lightly faded and rubbed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, title page and last couple of pages slightly silverfished; University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1959. First edition. *Includes A Handlist of Thomas J. Wise by William B. Todd.

Dawson Publishing,Folkestone, 1966-08-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. Ex-Library hardcovers with dj in very nice condition with all the usual markings and attachments. Text blocks clean and unmarked. Tight bindings.

London: printed for subscribers only, 1892. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Parts 13 and 15 only [of 19]. Part 13: February 1892. Pp. 93-124; Part 15: September, 1982. Pp. 165-196; both post 4to; printed pale orange paper wrappers, slightly soiled, edges lightly creased and split; uncut and partly unopened; a little light foxing; printed for subscribers only, London, 1892. Edition limited to 250 copies on Dutch hand-made paper, printed by Richard Clay and Sons, Limited. See Todd 220b [for the complete set] and 221b [for the illustrations, 100 copies of which were issued separately in 1893 to supplement the bibliography]. *Two parts only of a set of 19 parts which were issued from 1889 to 1890. The work is primarily by James P. Smart, 'Wise's function being limited to the editing of commentary and the interpolating of 'new' material' [Todd]. Wise 'legitimized' some of his Ruskin forgeries by including them in his Ruskin bibliography. Barker & Collins, in A Sequel to an Inquiry [p. 135] describe this as 'the… Read More

London: Reeves and Turner, 1886. Limited to three hundred copies. Octavo. lviii, 60 pages with a seven page catalog at the back. Illustrated bookplate of "J.A. Fuller Maitland" on front pastedown together with a type-written analysis of who might have designed the Pre-Raphaelite bookplate.