Forman, H. Buxton 1842-1917
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- Horne, R. H.The great peacemaker, 1872.
- DNB 1912-1921(Forman, Henry Buxton, 1842-1917; "he discarded his first Christian name and habitually employed the name Harry in its stead")
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Henry Buxton Forman (11 July 1842 – 15 June 1917) was a Victorian-era bibliographer and antiquarian bookseller whose literary reputation is based on his bibliographies of Percy Shelley and John Keats. In 1934 he was revealed to have been in a conspiracy with Thomas James Wise (1859–1937) to purvey large quantities of forged first editions of Georgian and Victorian authors.
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