Unpublished verses
By: by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Contributors: Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937; Wise Forgeries Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: [R.H. Shepherd?]
Published: 1888
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Books; Specimens; Pirated editions
Notes: "A simple piracy, and was printed at the instance of the late Richard Herne Shepherd", possibly "in March, 1888"--Wise, T.J. Ashley Library VI, p. 172. W.R. Todd includes this among the piracies of Wise in "A handlist of Thomas J. Wise" in Thomas J. Wise centenary studies, p. 106. The conclusion of N. Barker and J. Collins, in A sequel to An enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets, is that this work is a piracy by Shepherd, taken over as a speculation by the forgers [i.e. Wise and H.B. Forman]. Cf. Sequel, p. 239-240.

Wise identifies two issues: "the first with the author's name measuring two inches, and a reprint in which it is spaced out to 2 3/8 inches"; Barker and Collins report that the name measures three inches in all copies seen.

The text of the poem (p. [iii]-iv)--is from Swinburne's Hesperia, though in a slightly different order from the originally published text. Cf. Barker & Collins.

Rare Book copy: Wise forgery collection, 14322117. Author's name measures three inches.

Wise, T.J. Ashley Library, VI, page 172

Todd, W.B. Handlist of Thomas J. Wise. (In Thomas J. Wise centenary studies, p. [80]-115), entry 304p

Carter, J. Enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets, page 291

Barker, N. Sequel to An enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets, pages 239-240