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Forman, Henry Buxton (bibliographer and forger)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1842 - 1917

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Forman to Forster, E., 1807-1926.

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Identifier: MS.40415
Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Forman, Henry Buxton.Letters, 1884-1885, 1892, 1896 and 1912, of Henry Buxton Forman to John Murray III and John Murray IV. Folios 1-28.Forman, T.Letters, 1925, of T Forman to John Murray IV. Folios 29-30.Forman, Walter.Letters, 1817-1818, of Walter Forman to John Murray II. Folios 31-34.Forman, William Courthope...
Dates: 1807-1926.

Printed pages of ‘Fugitive Pieces’, ‘Poems on Various Occasions’, 'Hours of Idleness' and ‘Poems, Original and Translated’, by Lord Byron, with notes, revisions and additions by Henry Buxton Forman., 1884-1896.

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Identifier: MS.43399
Scope and Contents The pages here are of poems contained in the first four publications of Lord Byron. They have been heavily annotated by Henry Buxton Forman.Henry Buxton Forman was a well-known bibliographer and, it was later discovered, forger. He and John Murray [III] had agreed that he would work on a new edition of the works of Byron for Murray in the 1884. This never came to fruition, but the proofs here are the result of the start of that work and was sent to John Murray [IV] in 1896....
Dates: 1884-1896.

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