Thomas J Wise in the Original Cloth. The Life and Record of the Forger of the Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets
PARTINGTON, Wilfred
With an Appendix by George Bernard Shaw.
THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Robert Hale, [1946]
Stock code: 51472
Price: £20.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, with numerous plates, and facsimiles in the text, front free endpaper clipped; red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back (dulled but wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, moderately age-soiled dustwrapper.
Bright copy of Partington's pioneering exposure of the notorious forger: 'The biography of the most successful literary forger the world has ever known'. This is the expanded UK version of the US original, first published as 'Forging Ahead' in 1939.