Carter, John

[REPLY TO] NOTE 184 (AUTUMN 1962). T. J. WISE AND THE TECHNIQUE OF PROMOTION.

Contained in The Book Collector, Volume 11, No. 4, Winter 1962. Pp. 409-544(including advertisements), 12 plates; demy 8vo; printed stiff blue paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed, backstrip slightly faded and creased; top edges of leaves faintly foxed; The Book Collector, London, 1962. *Carter's contribution, on pages 480-482, is the second item in the Bibliographical Notes & Queries section. He discusses Joseph Charles Thomson's bibliographies of Tennyson and Swinburne, noting that both works include all the identified Wise forgeries of those authors, and that in his Tennyson bibliography Thomson specifically thanked Wise who 'placed at my disposal full bibliographic descriptions of seventeen of the "trial" issues including several unknown to me' [p. 481]. Item #160020

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