LETTERS OF THOMAS J. WISE TO JOHN HENRY WRENN.
A Further Inquiry into the Guilt of Certain Nineteenth-Century Forgers. Pp. [ii]+xiv+591+xvii (index, last type note), frontispiece portrait plus 23 plates, appendices, index; med. 8vo; \fs22 black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, the \fs24 cloth a trifle rubbed, corners of boards lightly bruised; top edges red, others uncut; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1944. First edition. *From the library of Australian publisher, John Gartner, with his bookplate on upper pastedown; subsequently from the collection of Australian book collector, Dr. John Chapman, with his small bookplate on upper free endpaper. \fs22 The author was Librarian of the Rare Books Collections of the University of Texas. 'In her Introduction [pp. 3-114] Miss Ratchford arraigns as fellow conspirators in the forgeries Harry Buxton Forman, Sir Edmund Gosse and Herbert Gorfin' [\fs24 Carter (Nineteenth Century Pamphlets), item 71\fs22 ].\fs24. Item #073338
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