Verses Thomas James Wise and H. Buxton Forman [Dante Gabriel Rossetti] 1 1887
<author>T. J. Wise and H. Buxton Forman</author> <city>London</city> <publisher/> <date/> <pages>[i-iii], 1-12, [13-15]</pages> </bibl> <note/> </citnliterary> <citntranslationoriginal> <bibl> <title/> <author/> <city/> <publisher/> <date/> <pages/> </bibl> <note/> </citntranslationoriginal> <citnpictorial> <title/> <artist/> <location/> <bibl> <title/> <author/> <city/> <publisher/> <date/> <pages/> </bibl> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl> <title/> <author/> <city/> <publisher/> <date/> <pages/> </bibl> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl> <title/> <author/> <city/> <publisher/> <date/> <pages/> </bibl> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl> <title/> <author/> <city/> <publisher/> <date/> <pages/> </bibl> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl> <title/> <author/> <city/> <publisher/> <date/> <pages/> </bibl> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>This notorious forgery by Wise and Forman was not definitively proven as a fake until 1983 (see the Barker and Collins work cited in the bibliography below)</p> </section> <section type="prodhist"> <head>Production History</head> <p/> </section> <section type="recepthist"> <head>Reception</head> <p>The pamphlet was a popular item with collectors from its first appearance, but it was also suspected as a forgery from very early. WMR, in his Bibliography, repudiated the possibility of <hi rend="i">Verses</hi> as a true edition. Later in revising the Bibliography, he made an exception on this point, likely for the sake of civility.</p> </section> <section type="icon"> <head>Iconographic</head> <p/> </section> <section type="printhist"> <head>Printing History</head> <p>Printed no earlier than August 1887, and no later than November 1887. The existence of the copies on vellum and fine paper mark this production as intended for a collector; because the market for such fine press work arose later on. Carter and Pollard use this evidence to question the forgers' production date of 1881. </p> </section> <section type="pictorial"> <head>Pictorial</head> <p/> </section> <section type="historical"> <head>Historical</head> <p>.</p> </section> <section type="literary"> <head>Literary</head> <p/> </section> <section type="translation"> <head>Translation</head> <p/> </section> <section type="autobio"> <head>Autobiographical</head> <p/> </section> <section type="biblio"> <head>Bibliographic</head> <p> <bibl> <author>Carter and Pollard</author>, <title level="bk"> <xref doc="a.z1024.c32.1983.rad"> <hi rend="i">Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets</hi> </xref> , 218-221.

Barker and Collins, <xref doc="a.z1024.c32.1983.suppl.rad" from="110"> <hi rend="i">Sequel to</hi> Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets</xref> , 110.

WMR, <xref doc="a."> <hi rend="i">Bibliography</hi> </xref> , 17 (item no. 15).

Lewis, <hi rend="i">Thomas James Wise and the Trial Book Fallacy.</hi> , 137-156

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