Letters of Thomas J. Wise to John Henry Wrenn: A Further Inquiry Into the Guilt of Certain Nineteenth-century ForgersA. A. Knopf, 1944 - 591 pages |
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Page 221
... title was quite different to any I had seen be- fore . I investigated the ... page , the following imprint : " Printed by John Norton for William Cooke ... title for his own share of the sheets . But now comes your copy , and I find upon ...
... title was quite different to any I had seen be- fore . I investigated the ... page , the following imprint : " Printed by John Norton for William Cooke ... title for his own share of the sheets . But now comes your copy , and I find upon ...
Page 222
... title - page . It is what the booksellers call " Fine tall copy , title . page soiled . " I call it a fine copy certainly , but with a very poor title - page indeed . Had it turned up alone I should not have bought it at all unless very ...
... title - page . It is what the booksellers call " Fine tall copy , title . page soiled . " I call it a fine copy certainly , but with a very poor title - page indeed . Had it turned up alone I should not have bought it at all unless very ...
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... title . Evidently the Poet was uncertain as to his title from the first . 3 ... page and " Con- tents , " two leaves , formed the whole of the preliminary ... title - leaf of the Wrenn copy is two millimetres shorter than “ Contents ...
... title . Evidently the Poet was uncertain as to his title from the first . 3 ... page and " Con- tents , " two leaves , formed the whole of the preliminary ... title - leaf of the Wrenn copy is two millimetres shorter than “ Contents ...
Contents
The Wrenn Library comes to Texas 3 | 3 |
The WiseWrenn friendship | 11 |
Carter and Pollards exposé | 37 |
Copyright | |
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