Every Watermark and Stain
Gill Partington: Faked Editions, 20 June 2024
The Book Forger: The True Story of a Literary Crime That Fooled the World
by Joseph Hone.
Chatto, 336 pp., £22, March,978 1 78474 467 0 Show More
by Joseph Hone.
Chatto, 336 pp., £22, March,
“... he insisted they should not be kept from the world and a manuscript was sent to their friend Mary Russell Mitford in Reading with instructions to print a very limited number of copies. These slim volumes, bearing the title Sonnets by E.B.B., then seem to have disappeared from view, parcelled up with some of Mitford’s other books and papers at her death ... ”