A word for the navy
Subtitle: a poem
By: by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Contributors: Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937, forger; Richard Clay and Sons; Sangorski & Sutcliffe; 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: 16
Subjects: Specimens; Forgeries; Literary forgeries and mystifications; Forgery
Notes: Thomas J. Wise forgery.--Cf. John Carter and Graham Pollard. The firm of Charles Ottley, Landon & Co., footnote to an enquiry, 1948, p. 10.

"This is one of four pamphlets issued by the mythical firm of 'Charles Ottley, Landon & Co.'"--D. Magee. Victoria R.I., v.2, p. 68.

25 copies printed on paper and 4 on vellum.

With a half-title.

Rare Book copy: Wise forgery collection, 14324193. One of 25 copies on paper.

Todd, W.B. Handlist of Thomas J. Wise. (In Thomas J. Wise centenary studies, p. [80]-115), entry 299f

Carter, J. Firm of Charles Ottley, Landon, & Co., page 10

Wise, T.J. Bib. Swinburne, pt. I, no. 82

Magee, D. Victoria R.I., no. 1049

Gift; Mr. & Mrs. Alfred C. & Madeleine Berol.

Issued in blue printed wrappers.

Rare Book copy: In original wrappers. Housed in enclosure covered in blue goatskin with gilt lettering; lined with watered silk; gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges; signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.