CARTER, John & Graham POLLARD. An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets
Item #7362
8vo; 400 pp.; cloth in price-clipped mauve dust jacket, top edge gilt. London & New York: Constable & Co / Scribner's, 1934. First Edition. The classic work of bibliographic research that exposed the Wise forgeries and shook the world of book collecting when it appeared in 1934. In their gripping procedural narrative, Carter and Pollard explain the steps they went through in order to move from doubt to the absolute decimation of Wise's impostures, though they are politic enough to avoid explicitly naming him as the faker throughout. Very slight shelf lean and bumping to leading corners; tiny chip out of jacket at head of spine; near fine condition in like jacket. |
