John W. Carter
British author
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association with Wise
- In forgery: Instances of literary forgery
…the greater in 1934 when John W. Carter and Henry Graham Pollard published An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, proving that about 40 or 50 of these, commanding high prices, were forgeries, and that all could be traced to Wise. Subsequent research confirmed the finding of…
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contribution to Gothic Revival
- In Western architecture: From the 19th to the early 20th century
Foremost of these was John Carter, author of The Ancient Architecture of England (1795 and 1807), in which Gothic details were more faithfully and accurately recorded than in any earlier publication. Thomas Rickman designated the various styles of medieval architecture in An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English…
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