Box 4

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Includes correspondence between Todd and Tober on Wiseian matters, four letters from Todd to Robert Fleck, and a letter to James Jaffe about a Wise forgery .

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Includes one issue of Constable's Bibliographical List with price and critical reviews of Carter and Pollard's An Enquiry . Also includes issue no. 4 and no. 7 of volume 2 of The Guildhall Miscellany (October 1962 and September 1965), containing articles derived from Todd's handlist of Wise forgeries.

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Includes offprints and reprints of articles and exhibition catalogs authored by Todd.

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Includes articles by Nicolas Barker, William H. Bond, Fredson T. Bowers, Herbert Davis, Philip Gaskell, Allen T. Hazen, James M. Osborn, and Jacob Zeitlin. Almost all of the articles and offprints are inscribed to Todd by the author.

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Includes articles by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis, Philip Gaskell, Lloyd Hibberd, Gordon N. Ray, and James E. Walsh. Also includes March-April 1981 issue of ARAMCO World Magazine with a special section on "Arabic and the Art of Printing." A few of the articles are inscribed to Todd by the author.

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Includes a section from Wise's A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne [London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1919], and a bound typescript with numerous manuscript additions that appears to be an early version of A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Walter Savage Landor , by Thomas J. Wise and Stephen Wheeler, also published in 1919.

Scope and Contents Numerous newspaper clippings about Wise's Ashley Library, dated both before and after Wise's death. Includes notices and reviews of his published catalogs of the library, the British Museum's purchase of the Ashley Library from Wise's estate, and reactions after the discovery of his forgeries. Also includes a signed copy of John Carter's "How We Got Wise," The Sunday Times Magazine (London) March 8, 1970, pp. 38-44, with Carter's note...

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Various reviews and discussions about Carter and Pollard's An Enquiry , including T. A. J. Burnett's 1984 review of both the Carter-Pollard publication and A Sequel by Nicolas Barker and John Collins.

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Numerous reviews and printed letters debating the merits of Partington's conclusions in his book, Thomas J. Wise in the Original Cloth .

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Includes a typescript list of letters and articles with dates, mostly from The Times Literary Supplement .

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Numerous essays, reviews, and articles from a variety of sources concerning Thomas J. Wise, H. Buxton Forman, and their forgeries. Includes John Carter's 1937 obituary of Thomas J. Wise, and the 1975 obituary of John Carter.

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Includes Tober's lists of publications on Wise with prices.

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Includes Wise-related lecture notices, pamphlets, broadsides, and handwritten notes gathered by Tober.

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Includes correspondence with Norman Unger, John Carter (Sotheby's), Jocelyn Baines (Quaritch), and Lord John Kerr (Sotheby's). The letters from 1972 were written by Prokosch shortly after he was exposed as a forger, and contain details of his forgeries. Also included are photocopies of these items.

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Includes a one-page manuscript, "Statement by F. P." with Prokosch's history of the Butterfly books and regrets for producing the forged pamphlets. One sheet contains textual corrections apparently in the hand of John Carter.

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Includes three Sotheby catalogs for sales that included Prokosch's Butterfly Books.

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Includes two Sotheby catalogs for sales that included Prokosch's Butterly Books, and a 1990 Bloomsbury Book Auctions catalog containing books from Prokosch's library.

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Includes two photographs of Prokosch, one with his autograph note on its verso.

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Includes several handwritten and typescript drafts for Tober's article on Prokosch, "A Local Forger," for the Delaware Bibliophiles Endpapers . Also includes two copies of the September 1989 issue containing the article.

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Includes copies of 1989 obituary for Prokosch, and various photocopies and notes relating to Prokosch and his forged pamphlets.

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Includes correspondence and invoices related to Tober's acquisition of Prokosch items.

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Includes examples of letter and manuscript forgeries of Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, and Julia Ward Howe.

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Materials related to two purported John Milton documents, including correspondence and facsimile documents.

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Includes two forged Poe manuscripts with related correspondence regarding the authenticity (or lack thereof) of the documents.

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Includes four newspaper facsimiles and related materials. The facsimiles of the Ulster County Gazette (January 4, 1800), the Philadelphia Public Ledger (March 25, 1863), the Gazette of the United States (May 2, 1789), and The Pittsburgh Commercial (April 15, 1865), were removed to oversize.