Privately Printed 1873. 61pp. William Morris's personal copy of Richard Wagner's Die Walkurie translated by Alfred W. Forman the first English-language edition. Privately printed 1873. Presented to William Morris by HARRY BUXTON FORMAN the translator's brother ink inscription being on the front free endpaper. Morris wrote to Forman thanking him for the book Collected Letters of William Morris Vol 1 No. 216. Condition: Generally Very Good but with dust soiling and shelfwear to covers. Henry Buxton Forman 1842-1917 was one-half of the most notorious British book forging partnerships in modern times with Thomas J. Wise. The relationship between Harry Buxton Forman and William Morris is a fascinating yet convoluted tale. Forman was a career bureaucrat with the Royal Mail rising from a lowly clerk to being responsible for negotiating international agreements on packet service across international postal borders. He is also described as a failed poet an obsessive collector of books and bibliographic detail which he parlayed into a second career as a contributor of literary criticism and editorial incisiveness upon some of the big-name authors of the day such as John Keats and Percey Shelley. His articles for Tinsley's Magazine entitled "Our Living Poets" brought him to the notice of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others of the Pre-Raphaelite circle whom he had written about. Forman did have a legitimate working relationship with Morris as described by biographer John Collins in his book The Two Forgers 1992: "William Morris was clearly a specialty as Swineburne was of Wise. Forman had been on nodding if not intimate terms with William Morris for some twenty-five years: he was known as a keen and punctilious collector of his works and as a useful literary type who could safely be entrusted with a set of proofs to read. He certainly admired Morris greatly so it was in the natural course of things that he would write the standard bibliography and forge the productions of his hero." p. 132 It is estimated that up to ten percent of the pamphlets and other shorter works listed in The Books of William Morris edited by H. Buxton Forman 1897 were in fact forged or pirated which the book then "authenticated". It is unlikely however that William Morris ever actually read this book gifted to him by Forman. Kelvin records his actual thank you letter for the book in 1873 as No. 216 in Collected Letters of William Morris Vol. I which reads in part: "nor am I much interested in anything Wagner does - his theories on musical matters seem to me as an artist and non-musical man perfectly abhominable sic: besides I look upon it as nothing short of desecration to bring such a tremendous and world-wide subject under the gaslights of the opera: a most rococo and degraded of all forms of art. I wish to see Wagner uprooted" Letters Vol. I p. 205. Adding final injury to insult it is suggested by John Collins that the translator of this work Alfred Forman Harry's elder brother may have participated in his brother's frauds as he was engaged in the paper trade for twelve years and supplied all the stock for Harry's legitimate and presumably illegitimate publications. A twisted tale perhaps worthy of an opera. . Signed by translator's brother. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Privately Printed Hardcover
Munster: Aschendorff 1936. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 sale item 380 pp. Paperback minor library markings else text clean and binding tight Munster: Aschendorff paperback
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New York.: McGraw-Hill. 1971. First edition. Limited edition of 200 copies number 28. Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy. . 4to. Illustrated in black white and color. Important reference work. Inscribed by the authors "To the Humphrey Wilkinsons - Best wishes to Earl's Loyal World War I "Buddy" "Hump" and his very fine family. Adelaide Pendden William Wagner T. Claude Ryan". Rare. Very scarce in this condition. . Photograph of OUR copy available upon request. McGraw-Hill. hardcover
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