Roger C. Lewis
Ashgate
Hardback
264
1995
Thomas James Wise and the Trial Book Fallacy is a new and hitherto unexplored chapter in the story of the notorious 19th-century pamphlet forgers which looks at a later and less criminal type of fake the trial book. Wise coined the term in 1896 to describe early ?issues? of Tennyson?s Idylls of the King. these trial books were usually genuine proofsheets corrected by the author bound by Wise (often aided by Forman) stamped on the spine with a pre-first edition date then marketed as a rare privately printed first edition - ?the true princeps? - ultimately designated by the author to serve as printers? copy for the ?next? edition i.e. the real first edition.
Ashgate
Hardback
264
1995
Thomas James Wise and the Trial Book Fallacy is a new and hitherto unexplored chapter in the story of the notorious 19th-century pamphlet forgers which looks at a later and less criminal type of fake the trial book. Wise coined the term in 1896 to describe early ?issues? of Tennyson?s Idylls of the King. these trial books were usually genuine proofsheets corrected by the author bound by Wise (often aided by Forman) stamped on the spine with a pre-first edition date then marketed as a rare privately printed first edition - ?the true princeps? - ultimately designated by the author to serve as printers? copy for the ?next? edition i.e. the real first edition.