Forging Ahead. The True Story of the Upward Progress of Thomas James Wise, Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary and Otherwise.
by PARTINGTON, Wilfred
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- Hardcover
- first
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York, G.P. Putnam, 1939.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, publisher's cloth with dust jacket (a few nicks and tears) In very good condition. Frontispiece, xiv, (1), 315 pp., 12 illustrations on 11 plates. *** FIRST EDITION. The text differs somewhat from that of the expanded London edition which appeared in 1946, titled Thomas J. Wise in the original cloth: the life and record of the forger of the nineteenth-century pamphlets.***
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- Bookseller
- Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24575
- Title
- Forging Ahead. The True Story of the Upward Progress of Thomas James Wise, Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary and Otherwise.
- Author
- PARTINGTON, Wilfred
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York, G.P. Putnam, 1939.
- Keywords
- bibliography, dictionary, dictionaries, bibliographies, linguistics, books about books, book collection, forgery, biography, Wise forgeries, Thomas James Wise, book collecting, books about books, English literature, printing history, publishing history
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