Collins, John

HARRY BUXTON FORMAN AND HIS SHELLEY REPRINTS.

Contained in The Book Collector, Volume 23, No. 4, Winter 1974. Pp. 473-632(including advertisements), 21 plates; demy 8vo; printed stiff green paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip browned and with a tiny chip at head; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; The Collector Ltd, London, 1974. *In his article On Harry Buxton Forman, pages 506-517, John Collins states: 'As precursors of forgeries, the Shelley prints have considerable interest: in my opinion they tend to support the suggestion that H.B.F. was the brains behind the plot, and Wise the messenger boy who later got above his station.' [p. 513]. Item #158086

Price: $30.00