Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also very nearly a great crook appeared before his 75th birthday. In 1934 two younger British book experts, John Carter and Graham Pollard, published a book with the innocuous title, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. It was a devastating investigation of an authoritative Wise catalog, proved up to the hilt that Thomas James Wise had for at least twelve years invented pedigrees for worthless books and pamphlets, passed off forgeries as genuine. Oldster Wise tried to bluster it out, finally retired in silence to his Hampstead house, lived secluded there until his death last...
Forger or not, old Thomas Wise had done England more good than harm. His 7,000-volume library, whose catalog alone fills eleven large quartos, was offered to the nation at a price considerably less than its assessed quarter-million-pound value, in spite of a tempting U. S. offer of "any reasonable price." The Wise library contains first editions of nearly every famous English poet from the time of Spenser, in drama ranges from Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575) to Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (1918). What the British Museum Library actually paid to get this sizable addition...
When the Sacramento Union heard about this it began to call proudly for a new gallery to house the "$15,000,000" Crocker collection. Director Pratt rated his findings more modestly but his curiosity mounted from week to week. He decided that the old Crocker catalog was not only inadequate but frequently wrong, wrote and printed a new one. Last week Mr. Pratt hung up for Sacramento art lovers his first batch of newly discovered or identified pictures, declaring it "one of the most important art events of the West...
Competitors in the field are Farrell-Lees Associates in New York and the Public Speakers Society of Harrisburg, Pa. The latter has a catalog of speeches in stock on subjects ranging from "Is Poverty a Curse?" to "Address at Opening of New Morgue...
...established by the late George Arnold Hearn, who subsequently added another $100,000 in memory of his son Arthur Hoppock, to change all this. In the past ten years 85 paintings by living U. S. artists have been bought by the Metropolitan. Last week a significant addition to this catalog was announced: an oil by William Gropper, oldtime cartoonist on the radical New Masses and Daily Worker, who began to show his paintings two years...