Foxcroft lecture on bibliography and book history for 2014. Foreword by Wallace Kirsop. Pp. 24(last blank except for press device), 10 text figures; wide roy. 8vo; printed stiff orange paper wrappers, stapled; Ancora Press, Monash University, in association with the State Library of Victoria Melbourne, 2016. More
Pp. 48, frontispiece plus 42 plates; printed stiff paper wrappers, edges browned and a trifle rubbed, fore-edges uncut; Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Hartford, Conn., 1906. First edition. *The life and work of Richard Brunton, a counterfeiter of paper money printed from plates cut by himself. Brunton is known to have... More
Preface by Sebastian Carter. Pp. xxii+416, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, notes, selective bibliography, checklist, index; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, 2004. First edition. *'The first full length biography of one of the leading scholars and booksellers of the 20th century.... John Carter is probably best known for exposing... More
The career of John Payne Collier. Pp. xiv+454, 4 plates, text figures, appendix, notes, index; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, the backstrip and part of front panel faded;Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982. First edition. *In 1850, John Payne Collier was among the foremost scholars of his generation: the pre-eminent editor... More
With a complete list of his works, and an account of such Shakespeare documents as are believed to be spurious. Pp. 67; printed paper wrappers, plus vegetable parchment wrapper, edges slightly chipped; uncut; occasional pencilled marginalia, a very little slight soiling, long inked annotation on last leaf; Elliot Stock, 1884... More
2 page letter in ink, with conjugate address leaf, folded to envelope size (small 4to); from the publisher, Thomas Norton Longman (1771-1842), to the ballad forger, John Pinkerton (1758-1826);n.d.[c. 1816]. *The letter is undated, on paper watermarked 1809, with a lightly pencilled note 'about 1816' at head of first page... More
Pp. 240, text illustrations, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 1979. *Fakes and forgeries. Chapters on antiquities, ceramics, coins, documents, furniture, jewellery, paintings, scientific instruments, sculpture, and stamps. More
An account of the theft and forgery of early Texas printed documents. With an Introduction by Larry McMurtry. Pp. xx+160(last colophon, blank), 39 plates, bibliography, index; narrow cr. 4to; qr. brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, printed papered boards; W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, Texas, 1991. First edition. *Detailed investigation of... More
by John Carter and Graham Pollard. The forgeries of H. Buxton Forman and T. J. Wise re-examined. Pp. 394, frontispiece, illustrations, appendices, concise list of sources, index; dust wrapper; Scolar Press/Oak Knoll Books, Aldershot & New Castle, 1992. Second edition. *Published in 1934, John Carter and Graham Pollard's An Enquiry... More
Second edition. With an epilogue. Edited by Nicolas Barker & John Collins. Pp. 10+xii+400+[11]-42(last blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, index; [together with]Barker (Nicolas) & John Collins. A SEQUEL TO AN ENQUIRY into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets by John Carter and Graham Pollard. The forgeries of H. Buxton... More
The true story of the upward progress of Thomas J. Wise, Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary and otherwise. Pp. xvi+316(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 11 plates, appendix, index; red cloth, the spine and upper board lettered in gilt, top fore-corners bruised; top edges navy, fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly... More
The life and record of the forger of the nineteenth-century pamphlets. With an Appendix by George Bernard Shaw. Pp. 372, frontispiece portrait, plus 12 plates, text illustrations, errata slip tipped-in at front, appendices, index; maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the fore-corners and bottom edges boards a trifle bruised;... More
A further inquiry into the guilt of certain nineteenth-century forgers. Edited by Fannie E. Ratchford. Pp. [ii]+xiv+591+xvii (index, last type note), frontispiece portrait plus 23 plates, appendices, index; med. 8vo; cloth a trifle rubbed, corners of boards lightly bruised; top edges red, others uncut; Knopf, New York, 1944. First edition... More