The question, MDCCCLXXXVII
Subtitle: a poem
By: by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Contributors: Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937, forger; Tout, Samuel, active 1867-1869, binder; Richard Clay and Sons; Wise Forgeries Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Charles Ottley, Landon, & Co. [i.e. Thomas J. Wise]
Published: 1890
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Specimens; Forgeries; Literary forgeries and mystifications; Forgery
Notes: Forgery by Thomas J. Wise.

Twenty-five copies only were printed on paper and four additional on vellum.

The poem was also printed in The Daily Telegraph, Apr. 29, 1887.

With a half-title.

Rare Book copies 1 and 2: Wise forgery, 14324069.

Rare Book copy 1: One of four copies on parchment.

Rare Book copy 2: One of 25 copies on paper.

Todd, W.B. Handlist of Thomas J. Wise. (In Thomas J. Wise centenary studies, p. [80]-115), entry 300f

Wise, T.J. Swinburne library, pages 132-133

Rare Book copy 1: Loose gatherings, as issued, laid in original blue printed wrappers.

Rare Book copy 2: Bound in contemporary English binding of half olive goatskin with marbled paper sides; sewn on three recessed supports; smooth spine with gilt lettering and tooling; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; red ribbon marker; three-color silk endbands sewn with a front bead; signed "Tout, binder" on upper flyleaf; original wrappers bound in.