Carter, John, 1934-1972, undated
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Lee Ash; Terry Belanger; H.W. Edwards; David Foxon; Eddie Gathorne-Hardy; Robert Gittings; Harold E. James; William B. Todd; Alan Thomas; George Watson; Cora Sanders; Jane Horten; Michael S[udlier], A. Cecil Clay, Esq. Correspondence with Todd includes material concerning the sale of Maurice Pariser's collection in 1967 and other related Wise matters, as well as provenance research into Carter's copy of Wise's Reading edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese . Correspondence with A. Cecil Clay, Equ. is in regard to Fannie E. Ratchford's Letters of Thomas J. Wise to John Henry Wrenn . and was originally laid in to John Carter's annotated copy of the title SPEC z989.W8 W5x 1944
Dates
- Creation: 1934-1972, undated
Biographical / Historical
Bibliographer John Carter (1905-1975) was a co-author along with Graham Pollard of An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (1934) that effectively exposed Thomas J. Wise as a forger. Carter authored many works on bibliography, including the seminal ABC for Book Collectors .
Repository Details
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