The nature and authority of miracle
By: by John Ruskin
Contributors: Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937; Richard Clay and Sons; Zaehnsdorf (Firm); Wise Forgeries Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: For private distribution; [Thomas J. Wise]
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]; [i.e. London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Specimens; Forgeries; Literary forgeries and mystifications; Miracles
Notes: Cover title.

Prefatory note signed J.B.H.

First printed anonymously in The Contemporary review (March, 1873); this second edition is undoubtedly one of the T.J. Wise forgeries and was probably printed in the 1880s. -- cf. Carter, J. Enquiry, p. 242-243 & Baker, N. Sequel to An enquiry, p. 371.

Rare Book copies 1 and 2: Wise forgery, 6047952.

Todd, W.B. Handlist of Thomas J. Wise. (In Thomas J. Wise centenary studies, p. [80]-115), 205f

Carter, J. Enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth century pamphlets, pages 242-243

Wise, T.J. Ruskin, 373

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

Gift; Frederick Coykendall.

Rare Book copy 1: From the library of John Morgan with his bookplate depicting Rubislaw House, Aberdeen. Also with a red leather bookplate with gold-stamped monogram of an unidentified former owner.

Rare Book copy 1: Bound in full blue goatskin; upper and lower covers with fillet borders in gilt; smooth spine with gilt lettering and decoration; turn-ins gilt with decorative rolls and fillets; board edges gilt with a single-line fillet; marbled endpapers; binder's device in gilt on lower pastedown; signed "Bound by Zaehnsdorf" at tail end of upper turn-in.