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TIL Thomas Wise was a keen collector of first editions in original condition dating back to Elizabethan era and given an honorary M.A. by University of Oxford. He parlayed his reputation as a collector of books into a career in creating and selling forgeries of nearly 300 works of English authors.
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Didn’t he sell that rare 1st edition of Charles Picken’s “Barnaby Fudge”?
You could say he was a man of the word.
Would make for an interesting movie.