An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets [With] Footnote to an Enquiry
by Carter, John; Graham Pollard
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: Constable & Co Ltd; Rupert Hart-Davis, 1934, 1938. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xxii, 400; 95pp. Octavo. Publisher's red cloth with titles in gilt to spine. Spine faded. Light shelfwear to boards with a few spots of discolouration. Head of spine with a few chips to cloth. Binding lightly shaken with cracks to a few signatures but binding holding strong. Custom bookplate to ffep, else internally clean with light age-toning. With "Footnote to an Enquiry" in original blue wrappers and titles in red to front wrapper and spine. Head and tail of spine and edges of wrappers lightly chipped. Sticker ghost to both wrappers. Small custom bookplate to front pastedown, else internally clean with light age-toning. Very good condition First edition with Footnote of Carter and Pollard's investigation into the Thomas J. Wise forgeries. Wise, a bibliographer and book dealer, forged nearly 100 pamphlets of celebrated authors, and after lending legitimacy to these forgeries in his bibliographies, sold them to unsuspecting clients. Carter and Pollard, leading antiquarian book dealers, became suspicious and after intensive investigations, exposed many of Wise's forgeries. A fascinating look at one of the most infamous cases of biblioforgeries. Nice to find the two books together; the "Footnote" ads additional forgeries to the list contained in "Enquiry". 1934
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 138178
- Title
- An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets [With] Footnote to an Enquiry
- Author
- Carter, John; Graham Pollard
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Constable & Co Ltd; Rupert Hart-Davis
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1934, 1938
- Keywords
- Bibliography|Book About Books|Book Collecting|Crime|Thomas J. Wise
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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