HARRY BUXTON FORMAN AND WILLIAM MORRIS. A PRELIMINARY ENQUIRY.
Contained in The Book Collector, Volume 21. No. 4, Winter 1972. Pp. 465-608(including advertisements), 16 plates; demy 8vo; printed stiff pale blue paper wrappers, edges and backstrip a trifle faded and rubbed; hinge cracking near centre, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; The Collector Ltd, London, 1972. *The article by John Collins, on pages 503-523, is summarised by \lang2057 LeMire: 'Manuscript notes by Forman in the Maurice Buxton Forman library sale of 1972, enable Collins to compare them with Forman's descriptions in his bibliography of Morris. Taking several Morris pamphlets as his subject, Collins turns up clear forensic evidence of the methods used in Forman's falsifications. . . . The account reveals in detail the processes of sophistication of publications.' \lang2057. Item #158084
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