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London: The Bibliographical Society, 1959. Paperback. 6.5 x 9.75 inches. Paperback. 50 pages. This text contains within the details of Thomas J. Wise's theft of a multitude of pages from various plays and dramas that were held at several prestigious libraries and museums across England. These locations include the British Museum, the Ashley Library and the Wrenn Library at Cambridge. Wise's theft of numerous pages from more than 80 different plays and dramas has totaled into the low 200s. The information contained within this book details the study conducted by Foxon to find and catalogue many of the pages and their parent books that were stolen by Thomas J. Wise.

London, The Bibliographical Society, 1959.. First Edition; 8vo; pp. viii, 41; 4 pages of b/w plates, appendixes; original stiff printed wrapper, minor bumping to spine, otherwise a very good copy.

Bibliographical Society, London, reprinted from the Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, first separate edition, 1961. Printed paper wrappers, 8vo, 25 cm. 4, 287 -293 pp. A reprint from The Library, Fifth Series, Vol. XVI, No. 4, December 1961. The paper supplement's Foxon's 1959 exposure of Wise's thefts of leaves from books in the British Museum, adding further evidence obtained from examination of the Wrenn and Aitken collections at Texas. Wrappers darkened, otherwise Very Good.

London: The Bibliographical Society, 1959. First edition. 25 cm x 16.5 cm, gray wrappers, pp. viii, 41. Previous owner's name and date on half title, a few leaves with corner creases, some creasing to covers, covers toned. About very good..

London: The Bibliographical Society, 1959. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo. viii, 41 pp., illus. Preface by F. C. Francis. Issued to members of the Bibliographical Society as the publication for the year 1959. Previous owner's bookplate, light edgewear, some wrinkling to front cover and age toning to both front and rear covers.

London: Bibliographical Society, 1959. A Study in Theft and Sophistication. Pp. viii+42(last colophon), 4 plates, table, appendices; med. 8vo; printed grey paper wrappers, the upper wrapper faintly creased; Bibliographical Society, London, 1959. First edition. Supplement to the Bibliographical Society's Publications No. 19. *Foxon catalogued the books bought from the estate of T. J. Wise by the British Museum. By comparing the Museum's existing holdings of Elizabethan and Stuart plays with copies from the Wise collection, he was able to establish (matching the edges of torn leaves, and noting patterns of stains and creases in paper, etc.) that the notorious forger had also been a thief - removing numerous leaves from the museum's books to incorporate in his own copies. Further investigation proved that Wise had 'improved' with stolen leaves many of the plays he had sold to the collector John Henry Wrenn. 'Wise ripped out of certain seventeenth-century plays 202 leaves, inserted 89 of these in his own… Read More