Feb 25, 2021 - Sale 2559

Sale 2559 - Lot 105

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Saint Brandan. 8vo, original brown wrappers printed in black, front cover neatly detached, short tears to brittle edges; catalogue note and bookseller's label mounted to front wrap verso. A Thomas Wise Forgery. The poem was first published in Fraser's magazine, July 1860, and afterwards in New Poems, 1867. Carter and Pollard found the text type to be identical with six proved forgeries. Carter and Pollard An Enquiry, p. 161. London: E.W. & A. Skipwith, 1867 [?1890]