The New Timon and the poets

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Small 8vo. Stitched as issued, in a quarter brown morocco and cloth slipcase. Bookplates of Harry Buxton Forman and John Whipple Frothingham. Faint pencil note to title page.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition, a partial-forgery by Harry Buxton Forman.</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> In 1870 Richard Herne Shepherd had produced two unauthorized Tennyson pamphlets, The Lover’s Tale and eighteen uncollected Poems reproduced from periodicals. The Lover’s Tale was suppressed, but when Buxton Forman took over Shepherd’s remaining stock in 1892 he found a cache of Poems. By the simple device of overprinting the first recto (blank except for the word Poems) with additional text, he