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Swinburne, Algernon Charles, THE BALLAD OF DEAD
MEN'S BAY (London: Privately Printed, 1889 [1891]). Pirated
edition, 18 x 10.5cm (8vo), sumptuously bound in dark green levant
morocco w/gilt title to fr. cover & spine, blind ruling to covers,
raised bands, gilt trim to edges of covers, ornate gilt dentelles,
deckle edges, cream ep.s, [i-ii], [1-5] 6-14 [15-20] pp. in original
printed buff paper wraps. Produced by T.J. Wise in 1891 using
watermarked "J Whatman 1889" handmade paper, this title is listed by
Barker & Collins in their Sequel to an Enquiry (1983,
Appendix 7; see also Dossier S226). According to Wise (Ashley VI
174), only 40 copies were printed; 22 of these have been located in
libraries worldwide (4 in the UK, 2 in Canada, & 16 in the
USA). In his "Story of a Lie: A Sequel to A Sequel," W.E.
Fredeman summed up the controversy surrounding Wise's activities as a
pirate & forger: "That none of Wise's honest
bibliographer-contemporaries has received such attention is an ironic
comment on the perennial fascination of roguery" (Review 7
[1985]: p.267). Provenance: Alva B. Gimbel, w/her small
decorative bookplate to fr. pastedown. Binding Near-Fine (spine
& extremities sl. sunned); contents Fine. Slater 39, Vaughan
4. (Inv. #540) C$1,000 Home Page |