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Thomas J. Wise in the original cloth : the life and record of the forger of the nineteenth-century pamphlets / by Wilfred Partington ; with an appendix by George Bernard Shaw.

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Thomas J. Wise in the original cloth : the life and record of the forger of the nineteenth-century pamphlets / by Wilfred Partington ; with an appendix by George Bernard Shaw.
Author
Partington, Wilfred, 1888-1955
Publication
London : Robert Hale, 1946.

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Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
Description
372 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
Summary
This is the first biographical and critical study of the amazing Thomas James Wise, the immorality as the perpetrator of the most original and extensive series of forgeries in British literary annals -- Dust jacket.
Subject
  • Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937
  • Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937 > Bibliography
  • Literary forgeries and mystifications
  • Book collecting
  • Book Collecting
Genre/Form
Bibliographies
Note
  • An enlarged edition, with alterations, of the author's Forging ahead, published in New York, 1939.
  • Includes index.
  • Errata slip inserted.
Bibliography (note)
  • "The bibliography of the bibliographer": p. 323-346.
Indexed In (note)
  • Laurence, D.H. Shaw,
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introducing the secret emperor of book forgers and some of his forerunners - Early and eventful years -- Robert Browning, his Pauline, and other affairs -- The lake poets: lyrical ballads faked -- Shelley stories: the pirate in full sail -- Revelations of the contemporary diary of Mr. Y. Z. -- The roles of Harry Buxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse -- Marriage, secret publishing, and Ruskin Ruses -- Three men and a boy -- Endings sweet & bitter: first doubts of certain xixth century pamphlets -- Re-marriage, and the writing on the wall -- The two Swinburne's: surprises in the poet's study -- Watts-Dunton's surrender: more secrets of 'the pines' Venus -- Paying off old scores and finding a scapegoat -- Revelations grave and gay -- Joseph Conrad: wise takes a chance - Portrait of a dictator -- His magnum opus, super-firsts, and high honours -- Byron romantics -- The pretty tangle of Mrs Browning's love sonnets untangled -- The exposure and some surprising sequels -- Why the forgeries were done.
OCLC
  • 2322423
  • SCSB-11974672
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library