Turnbull Library Asset Confirmed
(From Our London Correspdt.) LONDON, December 7. A collection of forged Victorian first editions held by the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington is now unquestionably of considerable, value. Fakes by the same forger, the late Thomas Wise, brought £24,000 for 523 lots when auctioned by Sothebys in London this week. This is much more than genuine first editions of the same works are worth because the Wise forg-
eries are part of bibliographical history. For example, a genuine 1860 Tennyson first edition went for only £1 whereas a Wise forgery of that decade fetched £75. A spectacular forgery of Browning’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese” fetched £7OO, and a forgery of Matthew Arnold’s poem “Alaric at Rome” fetched £BOO. Sothebys' experts believe that the Turnbull Library has the only major collection of Wise forgeries in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31547, 8 December 1967, Page 22
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141Turnbull Library Asset Confirmed Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31547, 8 December 1967, Page 22
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