WISE, Thomas J.

LETTERS OF ... TO JOHN HENRY WRENN; A further inquiry into the guilt of certain nineteenth-century forgers

NY: Knopf, 1944. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xiv, 591, xvi. Index. With several illustrations. Edited by Fannie E. Ratchford. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. Edges little soiled and spotted, cover slightly scuffed at edges, a few spots on title, o/w a VG tight copy in chipped and somewhat browned dj. Item #55082

Wise was documented as the forger of more than 50 "first editions" of 19th century authors. Ratchford, Librarian of the Rare Books Collections of the University of Texas, has proved further forgeries, and has implicated H. Buxton Forman and Sir Edmund Goss in the guilt.

Price: $40.00