Footnote to an enquiry. Pp. 96(last blank), 3 facsimiles (2 full, one double page); cr. 8vo; light blue/grey paper wrappers, lettered in red, edges lightly creased and a trifle split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, text block slightly browned; Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1948. First edition. *Loosely inserted is a folded leaf (faintly creased) of Corrections & Additions (1967) to 'The Firm of Charles Ottley, London & Co.' (1948). In this work, Carter and Pollard proved that Wise had forged a number of Swinburne pamphlets which they had been unable to substantiate in their original work on the subject.\lang2057 '\charscalex100 Subsequent investigation, some fresh evidence and maturer reflection convinced us that, whether or not their dates are false, these four pamphlets were produced, disguised under a bogus imprint, provided with a fictitious background and given bibliographical establishment by the same hand as the main group of forgeries' [p. 10].\f2 \charscalex0. Item #157292