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WISE FORGERIES -- Algernon Charles SWINBURNE (1837-1909). An Appeal to England against the Execution of the Condemned Fenians. 'Manchester: reprinted from the "Morning Star", 1867' [but c. 1890]. 8° (192 x 127mm). (Slightly browned.) Original grey paper wrappers (small splits to backstrip, light browning). A WISE FORGERY. Carter & Pollard An Enquiry (1934) p. 292; Barker & Collins A Sequel (1983) p. 224.

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WISE FORGERIES -- Algernon Charles SWINBURNE (1837-1909). An Appeal to England against the Execution of the Condemned Fenians. 'Manchester: reprinted from the "Morning Star", 1867' [but c. 1890]. 8° (192 x 127mm). (Slightly browned.) Original grey paper wrappers (small splits to backstrip, light browning). A WISE FORGERY. Carter & Pollard An Enquiry (1934) p. 292; Barker & Collins A Sequel (1983) p. 224.

J[ohn] R[USKIN] (1819-1900). Leoni; A Legend of Italy. By J.R. London: '1868' [but c. 1890]. 8° (192 x 129mm). (Title and last leaf browned.) Original grey paper wrappers (small tears to covers), contained within contemporary blue roan slipcase. A WISE FORGERY. Carter & Pollard p. 236. -- Henry Buxton FORMAN (1842-1917). A small album containing a 9pp. manuscript poem in a miniscule calligraphic hand, titled St. Christopher: A Christmas Legend, 1902. 16° (142 x 112mm.), 9p., with 9p. of additional text in Forman's usual manuscript hand (a 2p. introduction, a 5p. dedicatory poem 'To Louis Vanuxem' signed and dated '25 December 1902,' a 3-line intoductory note and a 1p. epilogue giving details of a tipped-in photographic portrait of Forman). Original red cloth (lightly soiled), later slipcase. John Collins quotes extensively from the dedicatory poem in his The Two Forgers (1992) p. 193-194 but transcribes the dedicatee's name as 'Vanuxern'. -- J. CARTER and G. POLLARD. An Inquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. London and New York: 1934. 8° (222 x 140mm). 4 plates, extra-illustrated with numerous related manuscript and ephemeral items. Original red cloth (spine worn). Provenance: John Carter (inscribed 'John Carter June 2nd. 1934. published July 2nd,' with his corrections and annotations -- sold Sotheby's, 24 March 1976, lot 32, £75 to Pickering & Chatto). CARTER'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, apparently marked up for an unrealised second corrected edition. The inserted manuscript items include a 4p. Als from Wise to 'My dear Jack' written two days before the official publication date of the book: 'Mark my words: 12 months hence these egoistic young ideots [sic.] will wish they had kept their ... fingers out of this particular Pie!' And 17 other works on Wise, Buxton-Forman, Chatterton and other forgers, all 20th century. (21)
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