The names of the Chicago book collector John Henry Wrenn and the English bibliographer and fabricator Thomas J. Wise will be linked forever in the annals of bibliophily. Their association began in the early 1890s and lasted almost twenty years, and it was Wise, acting as Wrenn's adviser and agent, who was responsible for acquiring most of the six thousand volumes of English literature in the Chicago industrialist's library. After Wise was unmasked in 1934, a nearly complete set of his faked pamphlets was discovered in the Wrenn Library. The publication a decade later of a portion of Wise's correspondence with Wrenn revealed that the latter had been systematically deceived and defrauded by his friend. Still later, the revelation that Wise had assembled made-up copies of Restoration plays using leaves stolen from the British Museum emerged from an examination of the Wrenn books. The Wise counterfeits constitute a relatively...