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Lot 192

HORNE (RICHARD HENRY)
Galatea Seconda, an Odaic Cantata

23 May 2012, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £62.50 inc. premium

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HORNE (RICHARD HENRY)

Galatea Seconda, an Odaic Cantata, 2 copies, second issue of title with Virgil quote corrected to "hiems", one copy on Joynson 1873 paper, the other wove paper without watermark, unbound, 4to, Melbourne, For Private Circulation, 1868 [Richard Clay, c.1880]

Footnotes

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.

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