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Melbourne: The Library Association, 1991. A catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, Manuscripts and Letters relating to Thomas James Wise displayed in an Exhibition in Manchester Central Library September 1964. Edited by G. E. Haslam. Foreword by John Carter, Introduction by Alderman Maurice P. Pariser. Pp. xii+86, 4 illustrations (one full page), appendix, errata slip laid on last page; f'cap. 4to; printed stiff paper wrappers, printed in light blue & black, faintly creased and slightly discoloured; upper hinge starting; Libraries Committee, Manchester, 1964. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies (450 for sale). *The exhibition marked the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Carter and Pollard's Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets In the Foreword, John Carter notes that many of the items in this exhibition had belonged to friends or associates of T. J. Wise, including Harry Buxton Forman, Herbert Gorfin, Edmund Gosse, and Walter Brindley Sister, 'perhaps Wise's oldest and…
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