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A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. WISE (Thomas James).

£200.00

MAURICE BUXTON FORMAN'S COPY

First edition. 8vo. [225 x 180 x 36 mm]. x, (2), 316 pp. Bound in publisher's quarter cloth over paper boards, spine lettered in black, plain endpapers, edges uncut. (Spine stained and toned, headcaps bumped).

London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society by Richard Clay & Sons Ltd., 1913

Some toning to the endpapers, otherwise internally clean, overall in very good condition.

Bookplate of Maurice Buxton For man located on the front pastedown. Two newspaper cuttings in relation to Coleridge's works are loosely inserted. Maurice Buxton Forman was the son of the notorious forger Henry (Harry) Buxton Forman who himself was the accomplice of Thomas James Wise. T. J Wise (1859-1937) was a renowned book collector and forger. Wise and Forman met in January of 1886, 'the latter had already embarked on the fraudulent misdating of books, apparently not with thoughts of gain, but aiming rather to create what ought to have existed. How soon their plans matured will never be known, but Buxton Forman may have alerted Wise to the possibilities of 'facsimile' printing, and Wise made Forman aware of the potential profits. The forgers' originality lay in progressing from attempts to reproduce genuine first editions, a procedure relatively easy to detect, to producing pamphlets which had no resemblance to the true first edition, but which fraudulently bore an earlier date. This conception, together with establishing and marketing the pamphlets, was a remarkable contribution to the history of forgery.' (ODNB: Thomas James Wise). Maurice Buxton Forman himself was a literary editor and has been posthumously implicated as a party to his father's literary counterfeit schemes.

Stock no. ebc8983

MAURICE BUXTON FORMAN'S COPY

First edition. 8vo. [225 x 180 x 36 mm]. x, (2), 316 pp. Bound in publisher's quarter cloth over paper boards, spine lettered in black, plain endpapers, edges uncut. (Spine stained and toned, headcaps bumped).

London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society by Richard Clay & Sons Ltd., 1913

Some toning to the endpapers, otherwise internally clean, overall in very good condition.

Bookplate of Maurice Buxton For man located on the front pastedown. Two newspaper cuttings in relation to Coleridge's works are loosely inserted. Maurice Buxton Forman was the son of the notorious forger Henry (Harry) Buxton Forman who himself was the accomplice of Thomas James Wise. T. J Wise (1859-1937) was a renowned book collector and forger. Wise and Forman met in January of 1886, 'the latter had already embarked on the fraudulent misdating of books, apparently not with thoughts of gain, but aiming rather to create what ought to have existed. How soon their plans matured will never be known, but Buxton Forman may have alerted Wise to the possibilities of 'facsimile' printing, and Wise made Forman aware of the potential profits. The forgers' originality lay in progressing from attempts to reproduce genuine first editions, a procedure relatively easy to detect, to producing pamphlets which had no resemblance to the true first edition, but which fraudulently bore an earlier date. This conception, together with establishing and marketing the pamphlets, was a remarkable contribution to the history of forgery.' (ODNB: Thomas James Wise). Maurice Buxton Forman himself was a literary editor and has been posthumously implicated as a party to his father's literary counterfeit schemes.

Stock no. ebc8983