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Visit rlf.org. I'm Thomas Jones. My guest this week is Jill Partington, a fellow in book history at the Institute

of English Studies, University of London, and one of the founders and editors of inscription,

the journal of material text, theory, practice history. She has a piece in the latest

issue of the LRB on the bibliophile book collector and forger, Thomas James Wise.

It's a review of the book forger, the true story of a literary crime that

fooled the world by Joseph Hone. So we're going to be talking a bit about that, but also about other

fake forgeries, pirate copies, hoaxes and counterfactuals. So hello, Jill, and thank you

very much for joining me today. Hi. So to begin, we should talk a bit about Thomas James Wise and who he was. So who was he and how did he fall into his life of crime?

Well, Wise was a bibliophile, a book collector, and in his day, in the late 19th and early 20th century, he was a mover and a shaker in the row books world

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