Samuel Prout
By: by John Ruskin ...
Contributors: Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937, forger; Wise Forgeries Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Printed for private circulation only; [Thomas J. Wise]
Published: 1890
Place of publication: Oxford; [i.e. London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Specimens; Forgeries; Literary forgeries and mystifications
Notes: First appeared in the Art journal, March 1849, afterwards reprinted in Ruskin's On the old road, 1885.

Probably a forgery. Although the paper is of normal content for 1870, Ruskin was in no way connected with its printing and the type is the same as that used for four other suspects and six convicted forgeries.--cf. Carter and Pollard. An enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets, 1934, p. 240-241.

With a half-title.

Rare Book copy: Wise forgery, 6048035.

Todd, W.B. Handlist of Thomas J. Wise. (In Thomas J. Wise centenary studies, p. [80]-115), 204f

Carter, J. Enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets, pages 240-241

Wise, T.J. Ruskin, I, 148

Gift; Frederick Coykendall.

In printed wrappers.