Guesses at Truth By Two Brothers. The Second Volume

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Second of 2 volumes in small 8vo. pp. [4], 355, [1]. Signatures: [A]2 B-Z8 2A2. Morocco, ‘cathedral’ binding. Marbled papers, presentation copies. Lady Blessington’s copy (sale at Gore House, 1847, 11th day, part of lot 338, bought by John Deakin Heaton). With booklabel of Michael Sadleir and, in the first volume, a card in his hand laid in, noting that on 3 July 1934 ‘this book was given to me by John Carter and Graham Pollard [...] as a gesture in return for the publication of their remarkable “Enquiry into the Nature of Certain xix Century Pamphlets.”’ This note is available in MS 580 in JHU’s Special Collections. Booklabel of Arthur Freeman. On 3 July 1934 John Carter and Graham Pollard, the authors of An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, one of the classics of forgery criticism, presented their original publisher Michael Sadleir (as we learn from Sadleir’s accompanying note) with Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Blessington’s very fine copy of Augustus and Julius Hare’s Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, a consummately appropriate gift to the author of Blessington D’Orsay, from ‘two brothers’ in biblio-detection. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.