Thomas James Wise and the Trial Book Fallacy

Describes one of the most remarkable book forgeries in history and the involvement of the British bibliographer, Thomas James Wise Contents: 1. Joseph Conrad and George Bernard Shaw Appendix 1. Shaw's Trial Books 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Appendix 2. Idylls of the King Trial Books Appendix 3. A Chronology of In Memoriam Appendix 4. Trial Books of Five Plays: A Chronology 3. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Appendix 5. Proof States of Rossetti's Poems (1870) Appendix 6. Proof Copies of The Stream's Secret Appendix 7. States of the Text of Autumn Song 4. Frederick Tennyson 5. Robert Louis Stevenson