FORGING AHEAD by Wilfred Partington 1939 T. J. WISE Bibliography & Forgery
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TITLE: Forging ahead; the true story of the upward progress of Thomas James Wise, prince of book collectors, bibliographer extraordinary, and otherwise,
AUTHOR: Wilfred Partington
PUBLISHER: New York: G.P. Putnam's sons
DATE: [1939 copyright]
DESCRIPTION: xv, 315 p. front., ports., facsims. 22 cm.
CONDITION NOTES: FINE/VG Price clipped dustjacket with a bit of soiling. Book is near fine with minor corner bumps
BINDING: Full orange cloth.
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Thomas James Wise (7 October 1859 – 13 May 1937) was a bibliophile who collected the Ashley Library, now housed by the British Library, and later became known for the literary forgeries and stolen documents that were resold or authenticated by him.
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Produced great bibliographies for Wise's published works included detailed bibliographies of Tennyson, Swinburne, Landor, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Ruskin, the Brownings, the Brontës, Shelley and Conrad. A particularly noteworthy forgery, which he authenticated as genuine and original, was an edition of E. B. Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese said to have been published in Reading in 1847.
