Volume 32, Number 3 · February 28, 1985
The Case of the Crooked Bookman
By Christopher Ricks
An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (2d Edition)
by John Carter, by Graham Pollard, edited by Nicolas Barker, by John Collins
Scolar Press, 441 pp., $40.00
A Sequel to 'An Enquiry': The Forgeries of H. Buxton Forman and T.J. Wise Re-examined
by Nicolas Barker, by John Collins
Scolar Press, 394 pp., $70.00
Fifty years ago, two steady young men shook the literary world with a book that went under the most lethally equable of titles: An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. John Carter and Graham Pollard were steadily brave, for their quarry was a man of crushing authority and of hushing connections: Thomas J. Wise, bibliographer, book collector, Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, forger, and thief.
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