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Wise was not involved and never owned a copy, while Forman was Horne's literary executor. On 12 November 1884 he sold a copy at auction (among much other Horne material), and this is the first recorded sale of any creative forgery. It is clear that the concept is due to Forman and not to Wise. The fact that some copies have a watermark which contradicts the imprint is a typically ambivalent Forman touch. The account in Equiry 2, pp.199-200 lays out the issue points, but misprints the Virgil misprint.